female figurine with jar; Karanis; Figurines; Ceramic; Phallic Harpocrates
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.
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