seated on an oval base with his forepaws resting on his knees, with finely engraved cape-like mass of fur and recessed eyes, and wearing a rectangular pendant decorated with two confronted deities, his head formerly surmounted by a moon disk and crescent.

Naim Nehmad, Jerusalem, acquired circa 1920s/1930s
by descent to the present owner

Front of base and proper right foot chipped as shown, large chip on back of proper left ear, top of head was filed in modern times probably to remove remains of a fragmentary sun disk, minor nicks overall including on side of snout.
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See A.P. Kozloff, ed., Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, 1981, no. 55, pp. 67-69; the author discusses a bronze baboon, which she points out is "probably a Saite revival of a late New Kingdom style." Also see a closely related serpentine example in Berlin, inv. no. 3472.