Fayoum / Figurine / Clay (unfired)

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.6524
Object Name: Figurine
Lot: Ruthven, Peter
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Figurines
Materials: Clay (unfired)
Length: 1.7 cm
Width: 4.25 cm
Height: 11.3 cm
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: The youth Harpocrates, draped to ankles and standing frontally, leans toward a conical pillar above which rests left arm with cornucopia. He looks forward and holds right forefinger to lip. Wears pointed headdress (probably a corruption of the double crown of upper and lower Egypt) in a flounced affair of snail curls. Forehead is framed with striated strands of hair. Digits indicated. Low, foreshortened rectangular base shown in three distorted planes front. Back flat and unindicated. Pinkish brown clay moulded solid.
Verbatim Date: 2nd-3rd c. A.D.
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Fayoum
Countermark: no
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: 0000.00.6524
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6524/0000_00_6524p01.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-0000.00.6524/0000_00_6524p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.