Clay Hippos | Photos by Tales from the Two Lands

Clay Hippos

From Abadiya.

Predynastic Period, Naqada II, c. 3500-3200 BCE.

Acc. No.: Ashmolean Museum E949

Predynastic Pot with Boat and Bird Motifs

Carved Ceremonial Palette

Ornamental Comb

Ornamental Comb

Handle of a Ceremonial Knife

Ivory Figurines

Ivory Figurines

Handle of a Ceremonial Knife

Ceramic Mask from Hierakonpolis

Ivory Figurines

Clay Head from Merimde Beni Salama

Pots Demonstrating Petrie's Typography

Vase Decorated with Crocodiles and Hippos

Beaker with Nile River Scene

Plate Depicting a Man on Boat Alongside a Hippo & a Crocodile

Bowl Shaped Like a Hieroglyph

Objects from a Child's Tomb

Labels from Tomb U-j

Pottery Vessel Decorated with Ring of People

Jars with Lizards

Obsidian Fishtail Blade

Beaker with Nile River Scene

Mace Heads with Male Faces

Pottery Vessel Decorated with Ring of People

Box with Flamingo Design

The Lapis Lazuli Lady

The Lapis Lazuli Lady

The Lapis Lazuli Lady

Large Jar with Boat Procession & Animals in Landscape

Large Jar with Boat Procession & Animals in Landscape

Mace Heads with Male Faces

Pottery Sherd with Serekh

Jar with Flamingos

Jar with Zigzag Panels

Large Jar with Boats and Figures

Incised Ware Bowl

A Jar With an Ink Inscription Naming Narmer

Palette in the Shape of a Fish

Fragment of an Ivory Label

Limestone Lug Handled Jar

The Lapis Lazuli Lady

Palette with Inlaid Eyes

Palette in the Shape of a Fish

Ivory Male Statuette

Vessel in the Form of a Duck

Palette in the Shape of a Fish

Pot Sherd with Incised Serekh Topped by an Ibis

Female & Male Figurines

Female Figure with Upraised Arms

Amulet in the "Bull Head" Form with Inlaid Eyes

Palette in the Shape of a Sheep with Inlaid Eyes

Female Figure with Upraised Arms

Palette in the Shape of a Sheep with Inlaid Eyes

Jar with Boat Designs

Figure of a Scorpion

Frog Shaped Stone Jar

Hippopotamus Tusk with Carved Head

Pottery Model of a Boat

Rectangular Palette with Rubbing Stone

Three D-Ware Vases with Wavy Decoration (Two with Wavy Handles)

Small Black-topped Red Ware Vessel

Palette in the Form of a Bird

D-Ware Vessel with Wavy Line Decoration

D-Ware Pot Decorated with Water, Gazelles, Desert Hills and Trees

D-Ware Vessel with Decoration of Two Boats with Male & Female Figures at the Prows

Sherd of a Pot with a Red Crown Motif

Greywacke Palette with the Form of Two Birds' Heads and Ostrich Carvings

Amulet in the Shape of a Bull's Head

Ivory Wand or Penis Sheath

Greywacke Palette with the Form of Two Birds' Heads and Ostrich Carvings

Terracotta Figure of a Lion

D-Ware Pot Decorated with Two Boats, With Gazelles in the Boat

Bowl with Hippopotami

Three Palettes in the Shape of Fish

Bowl with Hippopotami

Bowl with Hippopotami

Pear Shaped Macehead

Black-topped Redware Jar with Sculpted Lizard Decoration

Female Figurine

Female Figurine

Female Figurine

One Stone Jar (left) and one Ceramic Lug-handled Jar Painted to Look Like Stone

Three Stone Lug-Handled Jars (Left) Plus Two Ceramic Lug-handled Jars Painted to Look Like Stone (Right)

Shard from a Black-topped Red Ware Jar with White-Painted Decoration of Sheep and a Dog with a Collar

Black-topped Red-ware Vessel with Rivet Holes

Ivory Figurines

Figure of a Falcon

Two Black-topped Red Ware Vessels With a Model Vessel (left)

Vase with Painted String Decoration

Dish in the Form of a Trussed Goose

Two Female Figurines and a Clay Seal with the Name of Neithhotep in a Serekh

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