Upper Part of a Hippo Goddess, Old Kingdom, Dynasty 3-4, 2649–2528 BC, Country of Origin Egypt; From Egypt, Indurated limestone, plaster, paint, H. 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.); W. 12.9 cm (5 1/16 in.); D. 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.), This powerful sculpture is one of the earliest known statues joining multiple animal features to a human body, here a pregnant woman. This quintessential Egyptian concept produced striking imagery. Here the woman’s gravid body was given a hippo’s head from which a great crocodile tail emerges and flows down her back
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