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The Ancient Egyptian God of Writing and Wisdom, Thoth Images and Attributions

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File:Frammenti di rilievo con thot a testa di ibis, II sec ca..JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frammenti_di_rilievo_con_thot_a_testa_di_ibis,_II_sec_ca..JPG Sailko - own work CC BY SA 3.0

Inlay depicting Thoth as the ibis with a maat feather https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544093?deptids=10&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=thoth&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=14 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

File:Goddess Seshat, ca. 1919-1875 B.C.E., 52.129.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goddess_Seshat,_ca._1919-1875_B.C.E.,_52.129.jpg Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund / Brooklyn Museum / user: Kaitlyn153 No known copyright restrictions

Striding Thoth https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544092?deptids=10&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=thoth&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=1 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

Statue of a scribe with a baboon https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544748?deptids=10&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=thoth&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=39 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

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File:Maler der Grabkammer der Nefertari 001.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpg The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202. / Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH GNU Free Documentation License

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Thoth Amulet https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/552980?deptids=10&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=thoth&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=2 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

Cynocephalus Amulet - Thoth as a seated baboon https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/549266?deptids=10&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=thoth&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=16 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

Ibis with maat feather https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/570351?deptids=10&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=thoth&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=34 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

File:BD Hunefer.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BD_Hunefer.jpg Jon Bodsworth (photographer) Public Domain US faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain

Relief panel showing two baboons offering the wedjat eye to the sun god Khepri, who holds the Underworld sign https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/549700?deptids=10&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=thoth&offset=80&rpp=40&pos=101 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

Group statue of Thoth-ibis and devotee on a base inscribed for Padihorsiese https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/552857?deptids=10&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=thoth&offset=80&rpp=40&pos=104 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

Statuette of a Scribe https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544521?deptids=10&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=thoth&offset=40&rpp=40&pos=44 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

Shabti of the High Priest of Thoth, Djehutyirdis, born of Nepthysiti https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/545441?deptids=10&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=thoth&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=15 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

Sacred animal mummy of an ibis inside a jar https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/552293?deptids=10&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=thoth&offset=80&rpp=40&pos=106 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

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