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Description : Bid with Confidence - Trust the Artemis Advantage: - 25+ years’ experience selling ancient and ethnographic art - Ancient items have been legally acquired, and are legal to sell - Accurate descriptions, accurate images, no hidden reserves - Artemis has its own Testing Lab on-site to ensure authenticity. Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th to 20th Dynasty, ca. 1550 to 1070 BCE. A hand-carved steatite baboon seated with both hands on bent knees, its chest covered by a fur shawl decorated as an elaborate wesekh pectoral collar. This simian effigy presents with finely incised hair strands, broad tufts of hair projecting out from either temple, a neatly arranged coiffure, and a conical face bearing petite eyes as well as a sharp nasal ridge. This figure is intended to represent Thoth, the god of writing, accounting, and mathematics, in his more unusual baboon form. Size: 0.94 L x 1.2 W x 1.31 H (2.4 cm x 3 cm x 3.3 cm), 2.33 H (5.9 cm) on included custom stand. According to Egyptologists Erik Hornung and Betsy M. Bryan, As primeval animals, baboons and green monkeys were prominent parts of the Egyptian cosmogony. The earliest gods are sometimes depicted with baboon heads. The baboon became an aspect of the sun god, Re . . . And of the moon god, Thoth-Khonsu. Thoth (Djehuty in ancient Egyptian) was the god of writing and knowledge, who was depicted in the form of two animals: the baboon (Papio cynocephalus) and the sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus). In his baboon form Thoth was closely associated with the baboon god, Hedj-wer (the great white one) of the Early Dynastic period. By the end of the Old Kingdom (2686 - 2181 BCE) he was usually portrayed as an ibis-headed man, holding a scribal palette and pen or a notched palm leaf, performing some kind of act of recording or calculation. (Hornung, Erik and Betsy M. Bryan, eds. The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002, p. 200) Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 66.99.55. This artifact was appraised by Sotheby Parke Bernet on October 11, 1973. Provenance: East Coast collection, New York Gallery, New York City, New York, USA, acquired before 2010, ex-private Richard B. collection, Park Avenue, New York, USA, acquired 1970s All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. IMPORTANT EXCEPTION We are currently unable to ship to Australia, Germany or Switzerland due to customs regulations. #182328
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