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Description | Faience figure of a frog. Frogs were associated with the inundation (annual flooding) of the Nile an so could be linked to fertility and also the celebration of the Egyptian New Year, which was in July. Faience is a crushed quartz that is glazed. |
Field Collection | Hierakonpolis Egypt |
Dimensions |
length 4.3
cm |
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Date | about 3000 B.C. — 2500 B.C. |
Provenance | given: Egyptian Research Account 1898 (Filtered for: Antiquities) |
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Accession Number | E.108.1898 (Antiquities) |
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