Monkey or meerkat
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 broken.
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