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- Museum number
- EA15476
- Description
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A double-sided flask with similar Janiform heads of Harpokrates (or perhaps of a childlike Bes): he has vertical locks over his forehead and falling on each side of his face. His tongue is slightly extended, and he wears a diadem in the centre of which is a wedjat eye flanked on each side by a transverse bar and a boss. The narrow neck of the vessel, broken at the mouth, has a handle on each side, voluted at the lower spring. Harpokrates' neck is cut off by a flat base. Two-piece mould. Micaceous dark brown to grey Nile silt, with a black slip (Memphis Black Ware).
- Production date
- 2ndC BC-1stC BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 6.20 centimetres
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Width: 4 centimetres
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Depth: 4.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Terracotta IV
Purchased: Greville J. Chester.
Ptolemaic: second or first century BC.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1879
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA15476
- Registration number
- 1879,1120.36
