Did you know...
*The frog was used to represent the Goddess of Childbirth, Heqat.

*There were two kinds of frogs represented in Egyptian art. One was the Bufo viridis, the puffed-up toad-like amphibian. The other is Rana mascareniensis, the more slender frog with a slightly elongated face.

*The tadpole represents the number one hundred thousand in hieroglyphs.

Look for...
*The way the frog is sitting so the head is up and the eyes look toward the sky.

*The light-colored veins in the alabaster stone.

Statue of Heqat, the Frog Goddess
Travertine, height 6-1/8 inches
Egypt, late Naqada III Period to early Dynasty 1, 3000-2770 bc
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1976.5