Description
Upper part of the upright standing hippopotamus goddess Taweret. Taweret was a protective goddess, especially for pregnant women, childbirth, and newborn children.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
10/08/1974
Treatment
cleaned
9/17/1998
Examination
survey
Provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.