An apotropaic wand used in the Middle Kingdom of Egypt to ward off evil during or shortly after birth, carved from a hippopotamus tusk(Taweret was the Hippo Goddess of Birth and fertility) ca. 1981–1640 B.C. Currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1225×620]

An apotropaic wand used in the Middle Kingdom of Egypt to ward off evil during or shortly after birth, carved from a hippopotamus tusk(Taweret was the Hippo Goddess of Birth and fertility) ca. 1981–1640 B.C. Currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1225×620]

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