The statue represents a squatting baboon with a lunar disk and crescent set on his head. The details of the pelt and hair have been engraved, as is a line of inscription which runs along the sides of the base. Both the inscription and the kind of animal represented indicate that the figure is a manifestation of the godThoth.
"[1] Thoth may he give life (to) Pa-iu(-en)-Hapi, son of Pef... (?)"
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