Birth Tusks: The Armoury of Health in Context - Egypt 1800 BC: Including Publication of Petrie Museum Examples Photographed by Gianluca Miniaci, and D by Stephen Quirke

Birth Tusks: The Armoury of Health in Context - Egypt 1800 BC: Including Publication of Petrie Museum Examples Photographed by Gianluca Miniaci, and D

Middle Kingdom Studies

Stephen Quirke

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One highly distinctive ancient Egyptian product is the hippopotamus tusk section, incised with series of divine forms to protect mother and child. Here the "birth tusks" are explored in five movements: linear description of Petrie Museum examples;...

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