A WALLOW IN THE REALMS
OF THE BLUE HIPPOPOTAMUS

(Title inspired by 'The Hippopotamus Song' - 'Mud, Glorious Mud', Flanders & Swan 'At the Drop of a Hat' 1960 Parlophone)

Websites

• Hippos, Herodotus & Diodorus Siculus
• Oriental Inst. of the University of Chicago - hippo
• The Blue Faience Hippopotamus by J Marshall Grant
• The Earliest Glass Manufacture by K. Kris Hirst
• Ancient Egypt colours: blue
• Pigments through the ages: Egypt, blue
• Hippo on bible-history.com

Blue Hippo: Heads or Tails?

This web page complements a small article of the same title, reproduced in 'Inscriptions' Volume 8 (p. 8), the Newsletter of the Friends of the Egypt Centre, Swansea [August 2001 PDF]. It is primarily designed to direct the reader to further sites about the modelled blue faience hippopotamus of Ancient Egypt. A select bibliography of related works has also been included.

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Right: Vase in shape of hippo. Early Pre-dynastic, 5th millennium BC, from Mostagedda, Upper Egypt. British Museum.

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