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Notes:: The youth Harpocrates stands on rectangular base (three foreshortened sides represented) with right leg flexed and leaning to right; and holds cornucopia to side with left hand and right forefinger to mouth. He wears pine cone crown and cape looped from left shoulder and falling over left arm. Di-style shrine is shown in the round. Two prostyle columns supporting roof suspend four loops of garlands over his head. Sides and back display masonry. Pale red clay (Muns. 2.5YR 6/2) hollow molded front and back. Open under.
Data Provider:: University of Michigan. Libraries
Collection:: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Notes:: Isis with characteristic knot of drapery at breast, seated cross-legged on basket with right hand raised to exposed left breast and left hand obscure placed. Egyptian coiffure with a braid of hair hanging down each side of face. Harpocrates wears headdress and lies in lap of Isis with legs stacked. Left arm grasps right wrists of Isis, right arm obscure - may hold patera across abdomen. Both subjects gaze out. Features and details vaguely articulated and back unindicated. Reddish tan clay moulded hollow in two halves and sealed at sides. Large circular vent in back. Elliptical bottom open.
Data Provider:: University of Michigan. Libraries
Collection:: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Notes:: Short-bodied Harpocrates (?) on horseback in three-quarters view with right leg slightly bent, looking toward viewer. Wears helmet and short-skirted garment with V-neck and belt, and raises fisted right arm. Face is fat with large eyes, heavy lids, thick, square mouth and broad nose. Lower folds of garment indicated. Horse rears with stacked forelegs, and tail, sticking straight out, is short and spirally striated. Mane is shown with short vertical lines. Legs are in relief. Rectangular base indicated fron tplan only. Back rounded and unindicated. Reddish brown clay (Muns. 2.5 YR 5/4) moulded hollow and sealed at sides. Clumsy circular vent. Bottom open.
Data Provider:: University of Michigan. Libraries
Collection:: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Notes:: Isis standing with seated figure (Harpocrates?) to left. Isis’ stands with drapery knotted front, left breast exposed. Raises right hand and holds object, left arm obscure. Wears two corkscrew curls falling from each side of head to collarbone, large roll of hair from ear to ear across top of head, with smaller band of hair in front. Large eyes, little modelling of features. Seated figure has feet together, left arm to side, right arm obscure. Wears medallion and kilt. Coiffure no longer discernable. Face warn, large eyes. Back rounded and unindicated. base rectangular and represented in one plane only. Orange-brown clay moulded hollow in two halves sealed at sides, circular vent back, bottom open.
Data Provider:: University of Michigan. Libraries
Collection:: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Notes:: Hollowed molded fragment of reddish-brown clay (MUNS 5 YR 5/4) from a single mold. The reverse side has been handmade. The piece was retouched and painted red. There is crude workmanship throughout and the clay is Delta quality. It was poorly laevigated and chip and straw impressions are visible in the clay. The walls are heavy and there are traces of plaster. There is a circular vent in the back which opens on the underside. The is also a green substance which might be painted plaster, evidently modern, on the base. Overall the piece is in good condition. The fragment represents an obese phallic man bearing a load in his left arm and standing bandy-legged with feet apart on a low base. The head is tilted to the left and there is a short garment over the abdomen.
Data Provider:: University of Michigan. Libraries
Collection:: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

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