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Limestone Relief

The meaning of this image is unknown. The figure of a hippopotamus with a crocodile on its back & another nipping at its fingers is also seen associated with the northern constellations, but the text names Hapi, the god of the Nile's inundation.

Late Period - Ptolemaic Period, c. 664 - 30 BCE.

Acc No.: 70.2

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Horus Falcon Wearing the Double Crown

Horus Falcon Wearing the Double Crown

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Limestone Relief

Limestone Relief

Statue of Overseer of the Treasury Ptahhotep in Persian Dress

Wood & Glass Panel from a Shrine for a Divine Image

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