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Diorite bottle in the form of Taweret-Sekhmet-Sobek
Scent bottle, in form of Taweret-Sekhmet-Sobek composite deity. The bottle exhibits the pregnant hippo form of Taweret with an incised beard under the chin representing the leonine goddess, Sekhmet. The god Sobek is represented as a crocodile on the back of the hippo.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major
Circa -500 BCE - Circa -201 BCE
stone Diorite
Accession number: E.GA.4573.1943
Primary reference Number: 59024
Oldadmincategory: S
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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