An Egyptian Faience Baboon Amulet, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 900 - 700 BCE Paintings but overall intact and in

but overall intact and in very good condition

Gifts of the Nile

acquired 1960s-1970s

Harvesting the bark sheets that are used for the paintings takes place during the wet season

Clark in 1911 and later donated to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1925

An Egyptian Faience Baboon Amulet, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 900 - 700 BCE Paintings but overall intact and inRepresenting the god Thoth, of brilliant turquoise blue glaze, the god of writing and medicine portrayed single sided and in right profile, the body well modeled, his cape like mass of fur incised, his forepaws resting on his knees, the face with well defined eyes, and upturned nostrils, the top of his head with moon and crescent headdress, the tail curled around his proper right leg, seated on an integral oval base, a double attachment loop at the