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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Dog
A small statue of a dog was a popular type of toy for children.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of Isis
A small statue of Isis portrays her breast-feeding and carrying the child Horus on her arm.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Fish
The small statue depicts a fish. With a big head and a round, open mouth, the fish is covered with beautifully shaped scales and has an upper and lower fin.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Hare
This realistic statuette of a hare is made of bronze and designed with high precision to give the impression that it is running.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Lady
This statuette shows a lady standing who is wearing a very beautiful tall wig and a long tight-fitting garment.
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Eternal Egypt: Statue of Thoth
This statue, made of blue faience and gilded wood, represents Thoth as a human headed Ibis wearing a tripartite wig.
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Eternal Egypt: Statue of Khonsu
Khonsu is shown in the traditional form of a child. On his head, the lunar disk is surmounted by the Atef crown, and between them is an ibis representing Thoth.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of Anukis
Anqet, or Anukis, was an Ancient Egyptian goddess related to the Nile. She is generally depicted as a woman wearing a tall headdress made either of reeds or of ostrich feathers, as this statue is sculpted.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of Bastet
The statuette depicts the goddess Bastet as a gentle cat, her sacred animal, sitting on its haunches with a long tail curled around one leg and with rather long ears.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of an Ibex
This statuette of a standing ibex is made of bronze and is covered with branches of leaves and fruits and with small disks.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of the Goddess Taweret
The statuette represents Taweret, the goddess of protection of women in childbirth. She is depicted as a female hippopotamus with the arms and the legs of a lion and the tail of a crocodile. The statuette is placed on a rectangular,...
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of the Goddess Taweret
Wooden statuette of Taweret, goddess of marriage and child-rearing.
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Eternal Egypt: Statue of Hatmehit
This statuette depicts the goddess Hatmehit as a woman seated on a chair wearing a crown.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of an Actor
The statuette of light green faience depicts an obese man with a fat belly, flabby chest, and deformed genitals. The statuette could be that of a slave from the Greek New Comedy.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Princess
The statuette portrays a woman, probably a princess, with short black hair. She wears a tight, transparent dress decorated on the chest with colored geometric designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of God Sobek
This statuette represents Sobek with a human body and the head of a crocodile. He wears a plumed headdress and ram's horns on either side of a sun disk, like Amun-Re.
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Eternal Egypt: Statue of the Bull Apis
This statue represents the bull Apis. The bull has the solar disk between its horns, a distinctive diamond mark on its forehead, and protective vulture wings on its back.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Nile Fish
The statuette depicts a Nile fish called a Bolti. The fish was symbolic of new life and regeneration because it shelters its eggs and babies in its mouth.
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Eternal Egypt: Statue of Nebethotep
This statue of the goddess Nebethotep is in the shape of Hathor and has a small shrine on her head, with the royal cobra uraeus in the opening and two straws on its side.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of Amoneminet
This painted limestone statuette represents Amoneminet kneeling and holding an altar with a falcon's head.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Man Hoeing
This painted wooden statuette shows a tall, slender man wearing a short kilt hoeing a muddy field.
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Eternal Egypt: Block Statuette of Iwfaa
The squatting statuette of a man called Iwfaa was placed in the temple to permit its owner to symbolically participate in temple offerings. His body is completely covered by a cloak and he wears a necklace bearing the face of the goddess...
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of Harpocrates
A small statue made of faience representing Harpocrates, the child god in the trinity of Alexandria, is portrayed as a boy, resting on his right foot while the left one is unrestrained.
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of the God Bes
This statuette depicts Bes, the dwarf god of joy and happiness. He is depicted in his usual manner with grotesque, mask-like facial features.