Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Egyptian Figurines

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.

2 comments:

G. Verloren said...

The bear figurine intrigues me. Would it be of an Atlas Bear, do you think?

John said...

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.