Hippopotamus figurine / Faïence d'hippopotame

"Hippopotamus figurine
Second Intermediate Period, Seventeenth Dynasty, 1650-1550 BCE
Egypt, Thebes, Dra Abu el-Naga
Egyptian faience
H. 12.7 cm; L. 20.5 cm; W. 8.1 cm
Purchased 1883
This benevolent-looking hippopotamus slips into the marshes, taking on their colour and half-engulfed in water plants. Bright-blue Egyptian faience figures of hippopotami such as this were placed in the tombs of high-ranking civil servants toward the end of the Middle Kingdom.
E 7709
Egyptian Antiquities"
Source: text taken from www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/hippopotamus-figurine

Taken in: France / Île-de-France / Paris / Quartier Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois (show map)

Taken on: July 14, 2011

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Sets appears in: • Representations of Animals in Egypt and Greece • Egyptian Collection

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Camera: Apple iPhone 3G, f/2.8 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Apple iPhone 3G
Aperture:	f/2.8
Flash:	No flash function
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	4.2.1
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