Glazed baboon, sitting. Baboons feature in early dynastic dedications and are possibly a fertility symbol as later in Egyptian culture. Later, the god Thoth was sometimes represented as a baboon, but it is not known if this connection was made as early as the predyastic and early dynastic periods. This is one of a number of baboons from the Main Temple Deposit; examples were also found in the burials of the first kings of Egypt at Abydos.
Length: 4.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1898) by the Egyptian Research Account
1st Dynasty
Early Dynastic Period
About
-3000
-
About
-2500
Accession number: E.86.1898
Primary reference Number: 49643
Oldadmincategory: FG
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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