A WALLOW IN THE REALMS
OF THE BLUE HIPPOPOTAMUS

Article featuring Egyptian Blue Hippos

• Bothmer, B.V. 'A Predynastic Egyptian Hippopotamus', Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts vol. XLVI, no. 263, Oct 1913.

CD-Roms featuring Egyptian Blue Hippos

•  'Le Musée du Louvre: Les Antiquités' (Montparnasse Multimedia 1998)
• 'The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterworks from the Collection' (MMA 1998)

Information of a more generalised nature

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.

Further information