#faience statue

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Ram with lotus-shaped manger

Roman, Egypt, Fayum, A.D. 2nd century

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Faience Hippopotamus

18th Dynasty Egypt, 1570-1342 BC

A symbol of rebirth and rejuvenation, with floral designs painted in black on the surface.

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Baboon with a wedjet eye, Ancient Egypt, 26th Dynasty (ca. 688–525 B.C.)

From the beginning of Egyptian history, the baboon had a role in Egyptian religion. Initially, he was known as a deity called the "Great White One" (that is, the moon), but soon this god was conflated with Thoth, the better known ibis-headed god of writing and recording. Thoth's responsibilities included the calendar, which in ancient Egypt was lunar based, facilitating the integration of the two deities. Baboon amulets probably were offerings to shrines honoring Thoth, but could also have been placed with the deceased as a representative of the deity who recorded Osiris' judgment. This baboon holds a wedjet eye, the eye stolen from Horus and healed by Thoth.