Reproduction patinated by hand. Mold made from an imprint of the original work exhibited in the Louvre This ceramic object is inspired by a scene of hippopotamus hunt. From the age of the Pyramids until the arrival of Alexander the Great in Egypt, hippopotamus hunts were depicted on the walls of tombs. Some ritual objects illustrate the same concern; two statuettes of Tutankhamen on a papyrus carrycot and spearing the invisible enemy were found in the king's tomb. They are showed as tracked down animals, mouth wide open with pain and pierced by harpoons, or walking at the bottom of the
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