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Figure of the goddess Taweret

Figure of the goddess Taweret





Artist : Anonymous


Date : approx. between 664 and 343 B.C.

Material : Red breccia
British Museum
Egyptian sculpture
Ground Floor - Section 4
Item 46 on 62
Ancient Egypt
Sculpture

Area related
Egypte

Description   

Tawerat was a goddess asociated with childbirth ans was usually shown, as here,in the form of a pregnant hippopotamus with the face of a lion.
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