Egyptian Baby Blue Hippo, mine.

Egyptian Baby Blue Hippo, mine.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544227  

I'm not sure what it is I like so much about this ancient Egyptian statue of a baby hippo, but it intrigues me. I think I like the shadows from the Nile, right on his back, they give you an idea of the setting, which immediately suggests a story. And the hippo may be the main character, dynamic and anthropomorphic, or flat and quiet, in the background of the excitement of that time. Maybe the reed cradle bumped the baby hippo as it floated by with baby Moses. Imagine that.

Five of these rocks have been dropped around Ellensburg, but I kept this one.

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