Figure of a Baboon
Unknown
664–525 B.C. · Faience · Egyptian Art
Thoth, the god of writing, accounting and all things intellectual, was associated with two animals: the ibis and the baboon. His images either show him represented by these animals or they combine a human body with an ibis head. Here the god appears as a baboon.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 664–525 B.C.
- Medium
- Faience
- Department
- Egyptian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926
