Lot 115
115
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A PRAYING BABOON
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A PRAYING BABOON

NEW KINGDOM-THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1370-800 B.C.

Details
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A PRAYING BABOON
NEW KINGDOM-THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1370-800 B.C.
Standing with left leg forward, with hands raised and palms facing forwards as if praying, with detailed hair in mantle around upper body, wearing an inlaid rectangular chest pectoral, feet missing, mounted
3 in. (7.5 cm.) high
Provenance
The Ernest Brummer collection: sold Sotheby's London, 16 November 1964, lot 58.
K. J. Hewett, London.
Exhibited
Ägypten: Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, 1997; and Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, 1997-1998.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1996, III, no. 97; M. Page-Gasser and A. B. Wiese, Ägypten, Augenblicke Ewigkeit, Mainz, 1997, p. 215, no. 140; and Noah's Ark, 1997, no. 57.

It was thought in ancient Egypt that the baboon, sacred to the god Thoth, held the powers to bid the Sun to rise. It has been suggested that this is the reason for the depiction of Thoth with his hands raised.

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