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View full screenHollow blue faience spherical bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog with moulded features and black quills: Ancient Egyptian, probably Middle Kingdom, c.1985 - 1650 BC
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Hornemann, Bodil. 1951. Types of Egyptian Statuary, Vol. 6 (Munksgaard ), pl. 1692.
von Droste zu Hülshoff, Vera. 1980. Der Igel im alten Ägypten, Hildesheimer Agyptologische Beitrage II (Hildesheim: Gerstenberg), pl. XIV, no. 119.
R. S. Bianchi, in F. D. Friedman (ed.), Gifts of the Nile. Ancient Egyptian Faience, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, (Providence: 1998), pp. 220 (no. 981).
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