Karanis / Figurine / Paint / Clay (unfired)

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.6449
Object Name: Figurine
Lot: University of Michigan excavation (Karanis) Undetermined date
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Figurines
Materials: Paint; Clay (unfired)
Design Style: 2nd - 3rd c. A.D.
Width: 7.7 cm
Height: 16.2 cm
Thickness: 3.6 cm
Weight: 237.3 g
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: The piece depicts the youth, Harpocrates, fully draped and standing next to a red and blue stove piled with bread which appears to be black and spotted. Harpocrates looks to the right and holds a pink, rounded pot to the side with his left arm and leans to the right with the right elbow upon a tall, piriform neck amphora which is also pink, resting upon a yellow base. The figure wears a tall doublw crown flanked by two pine cones atop a flounced headband which is pink. The face is framed with yellow curls. The groundline is indicated with a black line. The eyes are black, the mouth is pink. The rectangular base is indicated by a frontal plane only and the back is rounded and unindicated. The piece is made of light reddish-brown clay (Munsell 5YR 6/3) molded hollow and sealed at the sides. There is a circular vent in the back and the bottom is open. Traces of paint remain.
Subjects: Harpocrates
Verbatim Date: 1935
Unit Grid Number: E07
Area: STC:*
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Karanis
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Ancient Color
Exhibition Curator: Person, Catherine; Roberts, Caroline
Exhibition Year: 2019
Publication Title: Die Agyptisch-Griechischen Terrakotten
Publication Author: Weber, Wilhelm
Publication Year: 1914
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.6449
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6449/dsc_7779.jpg

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Full citation: "Karanis; Figurine; Paint; Clay (unfired)." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6449/dsc_7779.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.