Description:
The baboon is made in hard blue faience. On the top of the head is incised a seven-lobed star or flower device. The animal is seated with his front paws on his knees. The tail curves to the right along the outer edge of the base.
Source: Helen Coleman
| Object details | |
|---|---|
| Type of object: | Animal figurine |
| Type category: | Sculpture in the round |
| Material: | |
| Width: | 25 mm |
| Height: | 55 mm |
| Depth: | 30 mm |
| Origin | |
| Style/Period: | Helen Coleman |
| Date range: | 50 BCE-99 CE |
| Discovery site: | Helen Coleman |
| Environment: | |
| Creator | |
| Technique: | |
| Personal name: | - |
| Role: | - |
| Culture: | Egyptian |
| Record data | |
| Artworld id: | 11011 |
| Current accession number: | UEA 585 |
| Former accession number: | - |
| Credit line: | - |
| Recorded by: | SA |
| Record date: | Thu, 1st Jan 1970 |
| Copyright: | Copyright© by the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich, 2002. All Rights reserved |


Comments
Statuette of a seated baboon
There are some images which obviously don't belong here. Could somebody please track down this figure (not the blue baboon) and I will try to put the images where they belong.