Monkey or meerkat 500–200 BC Late Period–Ptolemaic Period Depictions of monkeys are popular throughout Egyptian history. Standing monkeys balancing on their tails seem to date to the Late Period and later. A faience example was excavated at Naurkatis in a cache dating to the late 5th-4th centuries BC. The Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Expedition excavated in a Ptolemaic tomb at Thebes a wooden example posed like this one, but carrying a bow and arrow and housed in a small sort of shrine/box. Eroded as this statuette is, it is clear that the penis was prominently depicted. A loop through the bac

Monkey or meerkat 500–200 BC Late Period–Ptolemaic Period Depictions of monkeys are popular throughout Egyptian history. Standing monkeys balancing on their tails seem to date to the Late Period and later. A faience example was excavated at Naurkatis in a cache dating to the late 5th-4th centuries BC. The Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Expedition excavated in a Ptolemaic tomb at Thebes a wooden example posed like this one, but carrying a bow and arrow and housed in a small sort of shrine/box. Eroded as this statuette is, it is clear that the penis was prominently depicted. A loop through the back is partly Monkey or meerkat. 500–200 BC. Faience. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt

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