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Figurine of Birth Goddess Taweret Holding an Ankh (Sign of Life)

Figurine of Birth Goddess Taweret Holding an Ankh (Sign of Life)

Egyptian

This carefully modelled statuette of the hippopatamus goddess, Taweret (in Greek: Thoeris), is cut off at the thighs. She holds the Ankh symbol with both hands in front of her beneath her belly. The tripartite wig falls on sagging breasts, and ends in a crocodile tail in back. The tail is mostly missing.

Faience

Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22

Sculpture