Hairpin Decorated with a Hippopotamus
Unknown artist
Date: ca. 1840–1640 B.C.
Medium: Ivory
Dimensions: H. 9 × W. 1.2 × D. 1.4 cm (3 9/16 × 1/2 × 9/16 in.)
Country: Egypt
Period: Middle Kingdom
Themes: Hippos
Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
Date range
-1840 – -1840
Largest dimension
1.4 cm
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