figure
- Museum number
- EA37594
- Description
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A hollow terracotta head broken from a figure of a female saint or beneficent demon, with triangular wreath. The face is framed by locks of hair, with an uncertain device rising from the top of the head. Rows of raised circles near the edge of the hair probably represent curls. A palm branch is in relief at the rear. Holes are pierced through at ear level and at the top of the hair. Two-piece mould. Dark orange-brown Nile silt, with a little mica. Overall buff coating, perhaps a slip. Black ceramic colour traces on hair and forehead.
- Production date
- 6thC-7thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 7.62 centimetres (max)
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Width: 5.19 centimetres
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Depth: 2.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Terracotta IV
Purchased: Greville J. Chester. Acquired at Elephantine.
Late Roman, sixth to seventh century AD.
Comparanda:
Close: Strzygowski 1904: 245, no. 7132, from Kom Ishgau (Aphrodito, south of Asyut).
Near: Adams 2000: 92, fig. 30c, pl. 20c:2 (Nile silt), from Meinarti in Nubia, context between about the late fifth and the mid-seventh century AD; Henne 1925: pl. xxvii:6 and 11, from Edfu; Petrie 1927: pl. lv :604.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA37594
- Registration number
- 1864,0909.36
