figure
- Museum number
- EA54372
- Description
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Figure of a frog: in green granite, streaked with brown. The eyes and mouth are depicted by shallow depressions and incised lines, although the work is not very detailed. The surface is smooth and polished, except on the underside, which is rough and may have been broken.
- Dimensions
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Height: 4.44 centimetres
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Length: 8.24 centimetres
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Width: 5.91 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Numerous examples of Early Dynastic frog-figures are known. See Petrie, 'Prehistoric Egypt', 13 and pl.VIII, 38-42; J. E. Quibell, 'Hierakonpolis', 1, pl.XVIII, 10, 11, 14; J. Capart, 'Primitive Art', 193, fig. 151.
Published: 'Art and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt' (Japan 1999-2000): No 72/
- Location
- On display (G64/dc4)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1986 Jun-Oct, Carmarthen Museum, A son of Luxor's Sands
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA54372
- Registration number
- 1919,0208.31