AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE TOAD
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE TOAD

LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 640-30 B.C.

细节
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE TOAD
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 640-30 B.C.
Raised up on its front legs, the rear legs folded, with a ridged back, the short face with bulging eyes and a slit mouth, on a thin oval integral plinth
2 7/16 in. (8 cm.) long
来源
Dr. Gunger Tezel, Switzerland, acquired prior to 1970.

拍品专文

Two varieties of toad are native to Egypt, Bufo regularis and Bufo viridis. For depictions of related toads and frogs see nos. 37 and 38 in Arnold, An Egyptian Bestiary.