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- Harpocrates draped to knees leaning forward astride standing horse, right leg crooked, right forefinger to mouth, left arm obscure. Full head of hair and pointed headdress. Horse raises left leg. High rectangular base, front plane only indicated. Base rounded and unindicated except for top line of base and jawline of horse. Pinkish brown clay moulded (plaster mould) hollow. Two halves sealed at sides, bottom open, circular vent back. Traces of green, black and pink paint.
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Woman, wearing amulet, leggings, shawl and knee-length, V-necked, sleeved garment with chevron cuffs. She sits with legs drawn up and heels together, holding arms in orans position. Looks straight out. Face is full and triangular with flattened profile. Coiffure in front consists of two stippled rows of curls framing face, above which looms narrow bouffant melon arrangement with central diadem. Back side consists of very full, shoulder length wig with hair arranged in herringbone fashion. Drapery of back side indicated. Reddish brown clay (Muns 3.75 yr 5/4) moulded hollow and sealed at sides. Bottom is included in back side mould. Small rectangular vent, bottom. Traces of paint: drapery pink, hair black.
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Wilfong: Figure of god Serapis-Zeus. Bronze.
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Woman, draped to knees in sleeved garment, sitting with legs drawn up and heels together, holding arms in orans position. Looks straight out. Face is round and flat, mouth open. Corners of mouth do not meet. Holes for earrings. Coiffure consists of radiating rows of tight waves which frame face, line up in even rows and move to back. Back side shows hair parted down center, gathered, and tied at nape. Back side is represented entirely nude with channel for vertebrae, and dimples of lower back indicated. Reddish brown clay (Muns 5 yr 5/3) moulded hollow and sealed at sides. Bottom is included in mould of back side. No proper vent, but left earring channel opens into hollow interior.
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Gazda: Reclining hermaphrodite. Faience. Once decorated elaborate faience vessels found in house of Karanis. Represents hermaphrodite, the dual-sexed child of the Greek deities Hermes and Aphrodite. Hermaphrodites were often depicted as erotic or comic figures in decorative contexts.
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- 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.
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Face of dog. Eyes with indicated pupils look straight ahead from under arched brows. Bulge of forehead is divided up the center. Reddish brown clay (Muns. 5 YR 5/3) moulded hollow and sealed at sides.
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Aphrodite Anadyomene. Statuette of standing nude female holding her hair with upraised arms. Badly corroded; upper part of diadem missing; legs below thighs broken off (but partially preserved). Hollow cast bronze. Two-tiered crown atop head. Hair centrally parted,with bun at back and long braids extended outward. Bronze (Rocks, Paper, Memory; Larson).
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Front wall of hollow-moulded figurine of male wearing pharoah scarf and uraeus. Chest is nude. Survives from lower abdomen up without arms, and with uppermost part of headdress missing. Remains of plaster adheres to piece in places.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- frag. - head of female fig. Holes for earrings; not pierced thru
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
