Fayoum / figurine, Harpocrates with jar / Ceramic
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.6514
- Object Name
- figurine, Harpocrates with jar
- Lot
- Ruthven, Peter
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Figurines
- Materials
- Ceramic
- Length
- 5.15 cm;
- Width
- 9.9 cm;
- Height
- 14.15 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;252g
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- The child Harpocrates, seated with right knee raised to expose over-dized, circumcized phallus, holds jug in left arm and looks to the right. His right hand is in the mouth of the jug. Wears sidelock and corruption of double crown flanked by two pine cones. High rectangular base is given a rounded frontal plane and not represented in back. Back side is rounded and unindicated. Pinkish brown clay moulded hollow in two halves and sealed at sides. Circular vent back. Bottom elliptical and open.
- Subjects
- Harpocrates with jar
- Verbatim Date
- 2nd-3rd c. A.D.
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Fayoum
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Archaeologies of Childhood: The First Years of Life in Roman Egypt
- Exhibition Curator
- Wilfong, Terry
- Exhibition Year
- 2003
- Publication Title
- De grieks-egyptische terracotta's in het Rijksmuseum van oudheden
- Die Agyptisch-Griechischen Terrakotten
- Publication Author
- van Wijngaarden, W. D.
- Weber, Wilhelm
- Publication Year
- 1958
- 1914
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4279 x 4922
- File Size
- 922 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.6514
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6514/0000_00_6514p03.tif
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"Fayoum; figurine, Harpocrates with jar; Ceramic." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6514/0000_00_6514p03.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.