Thoth as baboon

Thoth as baboon

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thoth in the baboon form is here depicted with a small narrowing muzzle and particularly exuberant cheek manes. Somewhat unusually the god also has a uraeus on his disk. No horns are indicated in association with the disk. It is actually open to question whether a moon disk indicating Thoth or a sun disk indicating another aspect of the god or having some other import is represented.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.