figure
- Museum number
- EA37599
- Description
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A hollow terracotta head of a woman, broken from a figure, very probably of a beneficent demon. There is a high built-up hairstyle, with many curls indicated by sunken points; at the top is a large loop of hair encircling a raised point. Holes are pierced from front to back at ear level. Plain back, except for a loop in relief just above the break. Two-piece mould. Brown Nile silt; no apparent mica. Traces of a white dressing overall, more surviving on the front than the back.
- Production date
- 1stC-2ndC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.57 centimetres (max)
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Width: 4.80 centimetres
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Depth: 3.61 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Terracotta IV
Purchased: Greville J. Chester. Acquired at Elephantine.
Roman, probably late first century AD or second century.
Comparanda: Near: Allen 1985: no. 89, from Karanis, dated Trajanic to Antonine; Bayer-Niemeier 1988: nos 316, and 328 from the Fayum, dated to the Antonine period; Petrie 1905: pl. xlix:89, from House N at Herakleopolis Magna, dated third century AD (Petrie and Currelly 1905: 27; my date, p. 4).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- incomplete - head only
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA37599
- Registration number
- 1864,0909.39
