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| Keywords: Egyptian - Taweret - Walters 481539 - Three Quarter.jpg Taweret meaning the Great Greek version Thoeris is the name of a goddess who is depicted as a standing upright pregnant hippopotamus with a crocodile back and tail lion paws and in most cases human arms Taweret is a protective deity particularly connected to pregnancy and birth Amulets in the shape of Taweret became popular in the Third Intermediate period This figure is large for an amulet and displays the goddess wearing a long wig and modius calathos with uraei cobra serpents on her head While the standard posture of Taweret is with her arms hanging down beside her body this figure shows her right arm resting on her belly And the glaze is almost gone It is very difficult to read what the original color of the glaze was century 4 3 BC early Greco-Roman Egyptian faience with glaze cm 14 27 4 26 4 13 accession number 48 1539 37415 Maurice Nahman Cairo Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1930 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian statuettes in the Walters Art Museum Statues of Taweret Statues of the Ptolemaic dynasty Amulets of Greco-Roman Egypt | ||||
