Red jasper duck amulet.
Frog amulet, faience
Hippopotamus head weight, 1549-1296 BCE.
Baboon, 3100 to 2650 BCE
Dog, 664 to 332 BCE.
Hedgehog, faience, 1294-1279 BCE
Jerboas, 1850 to 1640 BCE. These are so cute I would suspect fraud, except that they are in the Met.
Bear, steatite, 664-332 BCE.
Fly, 1500 to 1070 BCE.
Glass fish, 664 to 332 BCE.
Cat, 664-332 BCE.
Antelope head, Memphis, 525 to 404 BCE.
And another cat, 2nd millennium BCE.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
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The bear figurine intrigues me. Would it be of an Atlas Bear, do you think?
No idea. For kings to have menageries was already well-established by the Assyrian period, so maybe some Assyrian or Persian king traveled his dominions with brown and black bears in tow, along with lions and leopards.
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