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alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Mar 29
Something lovely for the weekend! 🦛💙💙💙

A wonderful blue faience hippo decorated with lotus flowers and lily leaves. Made by an ancient Egyptian artisan almost 4,000 years ago!

I saw this adorable figurine last week at Brooklyn Museum
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My photo shows a standing hippo statuette in side profile facing right with head slightly lowered. It is made of Egyptian blue faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. Its bright-blue body is decorated in black paint with depictions of lotus buds, lotus flowers, and lily pads which grew in the hippo’s marshy Nile river habitat. As well as the association with the life-giving Nile, lotus plants were associated with regeneration and rebirth as they close at night and open in the morning. Hippo dimensions: height 10.8 cm x length 16.7 cm Blue faience hippos have been found in Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate period tombs of high ranking officials. It’s thought they were placed there to aid the rebirth of the deceased.
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