Statue of a seated baboon
Object type: Statue, Baboon seated
Department: Egyptian Art
Period: Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
Date: 4th century B.C.
Medium: Limestone, paint
Dimensions: H. 70.5 cm (27 3/4 in.); W. 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.); D. 33 cm (13 in.)
Geography: From    Egypt Memphite Region North Saqqara
Locale: Sacred Animal Necropolis
Locus: Baboon catacombs
Excavation: EES excavations 1968–69
Credit line: Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families, 1971
Accession year: 1971
Tags: Baboons