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- Osiris, Full faced and beardless, as a waist mummy standing on end in a floral wreath. Wars filleted pectoral length pharaoh scarf surmounted by laterally projecting ram horns secured at base by 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 two bigger studs, between which is suspended a square plaque by two snakes. Trapezoidal base with crowning and base rounded and unindicated. Reddish brown clay (Muns. 5 yr 5/3) moulded hollow and sealed at sides. Irregular vent in back, bottom partially open. Figure of Osiris as a mummy. Ceramic (Karanis Revealed, Wilfong).
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Youth Harpocrates heroically draped and seated sideways, looking to front. Holds jug with left hand while clinched right hand emerges from mouth of jug. High elliptical base indicated front only. Back rounded and unindicated. Pinkish brown clay moulded hollow in two halves and sealed at sides. Circular vent in back. Bottom open. Traces of red paint.
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- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Harpocrates draped to knees astride rearing horse. Right forefinger to mouth, left arm obscure, right leg forward. Tall headdress flounced at base and perhaps intended to fall to shoulders. Ringlets frame face except at mid-forehead. Tail of horse projects straight out and is striated spirally. Rectangular base sags center and indicated front plane only. Back rounded and unindicated. Pinkish brown clay moulded (plaster mould) hollow in two halves sealed at sides. Bottom open, large circular vent in back. Traces of black and white paint.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- The piece depicts the youth, Harpocrates, fully draped and standing next to a red and blue stove piled with bread which appears to be black and spotted. Harpocrates looks to the right and holds a pink, rounded pot to the side with his left arm and leans to the right with the right elbow upon a tall, piriform neck amphora which is also pink, resting upon a yellow base. The figure wears a tall doublw crown flanked by two pine cones atop a flounced headband which is pink. The face is framed with yellow curls. The groundline is indicated with a black line. The eyes are black, the mouth is pink. The rectangular base is indicated by a frontal plane only and the back is rounded and unindicated. The piece is made of light reddish-brown clay (Munsell 5YR 6/3) molded hollow and sealed at the sides. There is a circular vent in the back and the bottom is open. Traces of paint remain.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Woman fully draped stands in three quarters view beside large piriform neck amphora set in a tripod base. She looks to front with head slightly dipped. Drapery flies out slightly to right side. Left hand holds tambourine over amphora while right arm reaches across body to tap it with open hand. Face is oval, eyes thick-lidded. Wears flounced, stippled headband with central glyph. Looks fall to shoulders. Trapezoidal base represented in frontal plane only. Back rounded and unindicated except for base line. Reddish brown clay (Muns. 5 yr 5/3) moulded hollow and sealed at sides. Circular vent at back. Bottom open. Traces of paint.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Seated, draped female figure with right hand upraised, left hand in lap. Sides of chair barely indicated. Face worn away. Back unindicated except for two lines at base and questionable indication of headdress. Yellow brown clay moulded solid in two halves and sealed at sides.
- Data Provider:
- 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.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Head of figurine, looking to front. Head is flat and spade-shaped, with pinched notch for nose. Eyes painted in black. Red band outlined in black frames face area; upper black line is intersected by short vertical black lines, presumably indicating hair. Back unindicated. Brown clay (7.5 yr 5/4), hand-made, solid and scraped flat in back. Dipped in plaster, painted. Head only survives of figurine.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Isis-Aphrodite, fully draped in floor length garment (purple) with breast knot, stands with right knee flexed, turns head to right, and grasps drapery with both hands to raise it above public area, exposing herself. Wears corruption of double crown flanked by two pine cones atop a flounced headband (pink). Hair frames face, and corkscrew curls fall to shoulders. No base. Back rather flat and unindicated. Brown clay (Muns. 7.5 Yr 5/3) moulded hollow and sealed at sides with unmoulded back portion. No vent. Traces of paint and of paint base.; Figure of Isis-Aphrodite. Ceramic (Wilfong).
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Female figure standing frontally, arms outstretched, legs together. All forms are flat and extremely simplified. Arms are stubs, breasts, two bumps, naval is fingertip impression, face is mound rising from a flat circular background (headdress?) and peaked with a pinched notch for a nose, which, alone of the features, is plastically indicated. The other features would have been painted. A shallow channel runs down lower front to indicate legs. Back unindicated. Reddish brown clay (Muns 6.25 yr 5/4) hand moulded in two halves and sealed at sides, retaining hollow portions within.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
