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Past Exhibitions
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Thoth, the god of writing who recorded the judgement of the dead, appears here with the head of an ibis, his sacred bird (about 664-30
bc, Myers Museum, Eton College, with permission of the Provost and Fellows,
ecm 1587). The statuette is unusual because the god is nude, his body
voluptuously modeled in the late Egyptian style, except for a pair of animal-headed slippers. Each animal was a god who opened the paths of the underworld for Thoth and protected him from dangers along the way.
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