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Keywords: Egyptian - Hippopotamus - Walters 71527.jpg This animal with a hanging belly short legs and tail oval head wide mouth and large ears shown flat against the head is probably a hippopotamus Details of the figure are partly modeled partly incised The right leg has been reattached 2nd half 4th millennium BC Predynastic Egypt hippopotamus ivory cm 0 95 3 16 0 36 accession number 71 527 26697 MacGregor Collection date and mode of acquisition unknown lot 708 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1923 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Egyptian predynastic art in the Walters Art Museum Hippopotamus in ancient Egypt
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