Pantheistic figures embody in themselves the beneficial attributes of the deities of which they are composed. This statuette in hard pale blue faience is a conflation of a baboon-headed Pataikos and a falcon. The lower forepart of the figure has the dwarf legs and genitalia of Pataikos, holding his clenched fists upon his hips. The upper part is in the form of a baboon, sacred to Thoth, god of wisdom and learning, with prominent striated cheek hair, a tripartite wig with lappets, a broad collar around his neck and an atef-crown upon his head. The back of the figure slopes outwards to the rear of the trapezoidal base in the form of the folded wings of a falcon, associated with the god Horus. Below the wig at the back is the stump of a perforated lug. The top of the crown with its left horn is missing.

Entry taken from Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection 3 volume catalogue, edited by Steven Hooper (Yale University Press, 1997).