Karanis / Figurine / Clay (unfired)
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.6465
- Object Name
- Figurine
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Figurines
- Materials
- Clay (unfired)
- Design Style
- 2nd-3rd C. A.D.
- Length
- 4.5 cm
- Width
- 8.85 cm
- Height
- 13.1 cm
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- The child Harpocrates, fully draped and seated with right forefinger to lip, holds snakes (?) to side with left hand and tilts head up and to the right. He wears sidelock and double crown flanked by pine cones. Low rectangular base represented is curved, front plane only. Back rounded and unindicated. Reddish brown clay (Muns. 5 yr 5/4) moulded hollow and sealed at sides. Clumy vent back. Eliiptical base open.
- Subjects
- Harpocrates
- Area
- Surface
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Countermark
- no
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2272 x 1704
- File Size
- 119 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.6465
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6465/0000_00_6465p01.tif
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"Karanis; Figurine; Clay (unfired)." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6465/0000_00_6465p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.