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- Museum number
- EA36033
- 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. The mouth of the vessel is intact and flare. It has two handles. Two-piece mould. Micaceous brown Nile silt, with a worn matt red slip: probably a misfired version of Memphis Black Ware.
- Production date
- 2ndC BC-1stC BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.10 centimetres
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Width: 4.10 centimetres
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Depth: 4.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Terracotta IV
Purchased: Greville J. Chester.
Very close to registration no. 1879,1120.36, but not from the same mould-series: the main difference is the length of the locks of hair over the forehead.
Ptolemaic, second or first century BC.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA36033
- Registration number
- 1867,0915.67
