Purchased in Egypt this year.  Black statue on base with hyrglyphics o
the base.
About 8" tall.  Have a photo with "thoneris" written on back. 
{perhaps I have wrong spelling).

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Request for Question Clarification by ephraim-ga on 19 Jun 2002 10:23 PDT

I'm not sure I understand this. What exactly would you like to know about this?

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Request for Question Clarification by thx1138-ga on 19 Jun 2002 10:33 PDT

We really need more details, is it human in form, or a bird or?
Does it look like any of these:
http://www.khan-al-khalil.com/figu/figub.html

Thanks for the clarification

The word is not Thoneris but Thoueris.  This is the Greek form of
Tau-Urt or Taweret.  Taweret was a goddess of fertility and childbirth
and a protectess of mothers and children.  She was often shown as a
hippopotamus, standing upright, with a large belly, pendulous breasts
and human arms and legs (or sometimes those of a lion), and sometimes
with the tail of a crocodile.

Search strategy: none.  My main spare time interest is Egyptology, and
I knew the answer to this query.

Confirmation of my answer can be found at the Encyclopedia Mythica web
site: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/taweret.html

Images of Taweret/Thoueris can be found by using the Images search on
Google with the search term Taweret:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&safe=off&q=Taweret&sa=N&tab=wi

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Clarification of Answer by tehuti-ga on 20 Jun 2002 14:15 PDT

Hello,  I just noticed that you posted an almost identical question
which received an answer.  I found this question initially in the
"questions needing an answer" list and therefore had no way of knowing
that you had duplicated this question since answered questions do not
show up there. I apologise for the mix-up, but it was totally
inadvertent on my part.