Fayoum / Figurine / Clay (unfired)

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.6518
Object Name: Figurine
Lot: Ruthven, Peter
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Figurines
Materials: Clay (unfired)
Length: 4.15 cm
Width: 6.25 cm
Height: 10.4 cm
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: The child Harpocrates, draped to ankles in short sleeved garment and looking up and to his right, holds jug to side with left hand and holds fingers of right hand to lip (perhaps, unusually, to be understood as eating). Head of circumcized phallus shows between feet. Wears bracelet, double crown and sidelock. Two clumps of hair along forehead. Low rectangular base indicated flat in front plane only. Back side shows upper ridge of base, rounded bulge of the hips, and the back of left arm and jug. Pinkish brown clay moulded hollow in two halves and sealed at sides. Large circular vent back, bottom open.
Verbatim Date: 2nd c. A.D.
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: 0000.00.6518
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6518/0000_00_6518p01.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-0000.00.6518/0000_00_6518p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 10, 2024.