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An Egyptian Record: A small 3,500-year-old pottery hippopotamus has sold for $955,600, a record auction price for an Egyptian antiquity. London dealer Robin Symes bought the artifact on Tuesday at Sotheby’s of London. The 4.25-inch-long hippo is glazed in turquoise and has lotus blossoms and a grasshopper painted on its back. The previous top price for an Egyptian antiquity was $742,500 for a granite figure of the goddess Sekhmet auctioned in 1986.
