Fayoum / Figurine / Clay (unfired) / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.6521
Object Name: Figurine
Lot: Ruthven, Peter
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Figurines
Materials: Clay (unfired); Slip
Width: 5.8 cm
Height: 9.5 cm
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Child Harpocrates seated with right leg extended, holding tall piriform amphora to side with left arm and raising right forefinger to lip. Wears double crown atop flounced, stippled head-band with fillet, the tails of which drape on his shoulders. Free, wavy locks flow out from face. Sharp eyebrow ridges form strong horizontal across circular face. Eyelids heavy and open at inner corners. Faint smile. Limbs short and chubby, small hands and feet. Saggy and protruding abdomen. Coiffure and pelvic dimples indicated on back. Flat, closed base for placement on separate piece, perhaps lotus. Red clay (Muns. 10YR4/6) Minor abrasions. Hollow moulded and slipped weak red. Circular vent in back.
Subjects: Harpocrates with amphora
Verbatim Date: 1st-2nd C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Fayoum
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: The Gods of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman Period
Exhibition Curator: Gazda, Elaine
Publication Title: The Gods of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman Period; Die Agyptisch-Griechischen Terrakotten; De grieks-egyptische terracotta's in het Rijksmuseum van oudheden
Publication Author: Haeckl, A.E.; Spelman, K.C.; Weber, Wilhelm; van Wijngaarden, W. D.
Publication Year: 1977; 1914; 1958
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.6521
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6521/dsc_7788.jpg

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Full citation: "Fayoum; Figurine; Clay (unfired); Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6521/dsc_7788.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.