Art Funded
Statuette of man carrying a baboon
Egyptian
Ashmolean Museum
13th century BC
Young man carrying a baboon wearing a leopard-skin flung over his shoulder. Inscription in hieroglyphics records that the statuette was dedicated by a scribe and priest of Thoth to the god Thoth of Hermopolis.
- Medium: limestone
- Dimensions: 34 cm
- Art Fund Grant: £600 ( Total: £1,200)
- ArtFunded in: 1961
- Vendor: Spink & Son
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