Fayoum / Figurine / Clay (unfired)

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.6510
Object Name: Figurine
Lot: Ruthven, Peter
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Figurines
Materials: Clay (unfired)
Length: 4.05 cm
Width: 10.35 cm
Height: 15.95 cm
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: The child Harpocrates, seated with right leg extended and semi-draped, holds rounded jar with left arm and sticks right hand in mouth of jar. He wears sidelock and corruption of double crown flanked by two pine cones atop a high flounced headband. He is full-faced, and tilts head slightly up and to the right. Low rounded base with trapezoidal sides. Back rounded and unindicated. Red brown clay moulded hollow in two halves and sealed at sides. Unsuccessful rounded vent. Bottom elliptical and open.
Verbatim Date: 3rd C. A.D. or later
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Fayoum
Countermark: no
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

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.6510
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6510/0000_00_6510p01.tif

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Full citation: "Fayoum; Figurine; Clay (unfired)." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6510/0000_00_6510p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.