Statuette of a Baboon

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Culture: Egyptian Material: Limestone Dims: H 19.5 Accession No: MG 005 Current Location: The Hunt Museum, Limerick. A baboon carved from limestone, squats with forearms resting on its knees. A hole in the crown indicates a headdress, a gilded wood sun disc or moon. The smooth face and shoulders indicates the Later Period rather than a New Kingdom hamadryas. The baboon was a manifestation of the god Thoth, a moon deity, who personified divine speech and was a god of writing, mathematics, astronomy and healing. Baboons were common at the animal necropolis in North Saqqara. More.

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HuntMuseum
The Hunt Museum preserves and exhibits the original artefacts gathered, over a lifetime, by John and Gertrude Hunt and known as the Hunt Collection. The Museum also displays its own collections, as well as visiting exhibitions of Local, National and International significance with the overall aim of maximising their cultural and educational potential for the people of Limerick and Ireland.

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