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EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC LIMESTONE HIPPOPOTAMUS

Of schematic design with a circular hollow projection pierced by four holes, on its back.
Cf. Similar in Payne, Ashmolean Pre-Dynastic Collection, no. 1976.

Ex European private collection; German private collection.


Ca. 3200 BC

H 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2003, no. 193
CNZ115
$3,500


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