Title: Artist's Painting of a Hippopotamus
Object type: Ostracon, figured, hippopotamus
Date: ca. 1479–1425 B.C.
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Medium: Limestone, paint
Dimensions: H. 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in); W. 12 cm (4 3/4 in); Th. 1.7 cm (11/16 in)
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1923
Geography: From    Egypt Upper Egypt, Thebes Deir el-Bahri Hatshepsut Hole  MMA excavations, 1922–23 
Department: Egyptian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Hippos