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Artist’s painting of a hippo on a flake of limestone.
Perhaps a practice sketch, or just for the joy of painting 3,500 years ago.
From Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt,
Date: ca. 1479–1425 B.C.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547746