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Blue-green faience hedgehog figurine with black spots on elliptical base, both left legs slightly advanced and modeled freely in the round.
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"When placed in tombs, they were meant to supply the deceased with regenerative power and to guarantee his or her rebirth. Since the ancient Egyptians also feared these animals and believed that depictions of them could magically come alive, the legs of many such statuettes were probably broken off deliberately, thus eliminating the animal’s destructive potential." Hippopotami in Ancient Egypt Isabel Stünkel Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Egyptian faience fly, scarab and ushabti amulets strung with cylinder beads.
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It seems that the Egyptians were impressed by this small mammal since the Predynastic Period because of its ability to live in extreme environmental conditions. The hedgehog is mainly active at night, and is endowed with particularly acute eyesight; protected by its quills, the animal lives in semi-desert areas, bordering on inhospitable lands, considered to be places of death; it also hunts snakes and scorpions, whose poison it is able to resist.
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Saulieu model in Faience with Brass. As seen in out LA showroom
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Faience Egypt Ptolemaic Period Dynasty 30 ca. 380-342 B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC
