Search Constraints
« Previous |
91 - 100 of 133
|
Next »
Search Results
- Notes:
- Flat spade-shaped head with bulge for face and pinched nose. Holes for earrings. Reddish brown clay (Muns.2.5YR5/4) hand fashioned. Unevenly fired. Survives from neck up.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Depth: 5.7 cm Reddish brown clay (Muns. 5YR5/3). Small hole in back of head. Traces of yellow paint on jug and powdering plaster. The child seated with right knee raised, holds elongated right forefinger to hips. Wears thick sidelock with snaky curls, double crown flanked by pine cones, a knee-length garment, and necklace with several amulets. Holds squat vessel with pierced mouth at left side. Slender eyebrows arch across full face and lead into a short, broad-tipped nose. Pudgy cheeks and chin. Pursed lips. Blank eyes slightly bulbous. In front, folds of drapery loop schematically between two vertical panels. Pair of similar panels of drapery on back framing short V-shaped creases. Bottom summarily rendered. Hollow moulded in two halves and sealed on all sides. Tiny circular vent in bottom.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Osiris, beardless, as waist mummy standing on end in a floral wreath. Wears Filleted, pectoral length pharaoh scarf surmounted by laterally projecting ram horns secured at base by double disk, above which loom two plumes with central solar disk. Between tails of scarf are three studs which mark the top of a long breast piece. Under these are (2) bigger studs between which is suspended a square plaque [with central solar disk]. Below: [solar disk flanked by] possibly two snakes. High trapezoidal base with crowning and base mouldings, indicated in frontal plane only. Back side rounded and unindicated. Coarse, reddish brown clay (Muns. 5 yr 5/4) moulded hollow and sealed at sides. Small irregular vent in back. Bottom partially open.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Reddish brown clay (Muns. 2.5 yr 5/4). Plastered and painted. Broken at the shins. Chest break repaired. Left arm missing. Plaster flaking. Figure may be Orant. Stands frontally, legs together and arms outstretched. Simplified forms. Arms are stubs. Breasts are knobs. Navel is forefinger impression. Shallow channel between legs. Hips flare slightly. Flat head almost spade shaped and pierced on each side for earrings. Steep pinched nose. Large eyes, lashes, and lips sketched in black paint. The hair, necklace (?), and garment schematically rendered in paint. Diagonally hatched panel runs from each shoulder down length of body. Lower abdomen marked by large X within a square. Garment fastened by straps which cross in back. Handmade, solid with flattened back. Dipped in plaster and painted
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- The child Harpocrates, fully draped and seated with right forefinger to lip, holds snakes (?) to side with left hand and tilts head up and to the right. He wears sidelock and double crown flanked by pine cones. Low rectangular base represented is curved, front plane only. Back rounded and unindicated. Reddish brown clay (Muns. 5 yr 5/4) moulded hollow and sealed at sides. Clumy vent back. Eliiptical base open.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Gazda: Crouching figure of Aphrodite. Faience. Once decorated elaborate faience vessels found in houses of Karanis. Probably depicts Aphrodite, crouching and arranging her hair, following a model of a popular statue type in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The prominent breasts and abdomen emphasize the goddess's fertility.; Aphrodite Anadyomene. p.H. 0.080 m, p.W. 0.036 m, D. 0.028 m. Molded, high relief appliqué originally attached to faience vessel. Broken on all sides. Nude female, with knees to right and arms raised to hair. Fillet and wreath indicated by impressed dots. Faience, greenish-blue (Rocks, Paper, Memory; Larson).
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Reddish-brown clay. The youth Harpocrates, fully draped stands, holding a rounded jug in left arm, dips right hand into jug. He is crowned with two pine cones and wears the sidelock of youth. Face full with thickly lidded eyes deep set beneath arched brows. Cheeks lightly modelled. Heavy upper lip obscures slender lower lip and small chin almost lost in swollen neck. Body is corpulent and an elongated phallus extends to feet. High circular base represented in profile only in front. Minor scattered abrasions. Hole through front wall to inside of left foot. Powdery, tinted plaster still adheres to surface in places. Hollow moulded. Circular vent in back. Bottom open. Back unworked.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Head of bird, moulded, with features done in cold work. Eyes outlined with wide line, beak indicated with slash on each side of head. Light reddish brown clay (Muns. approx. 5 yr 6/4) moulded hollow in two halves. Seams well concealed.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
