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Source Description
This object may have been attached to a faience vessel. The rather frightening appearance of the head is similar to representations of the Egyptian dwarf-god Bes or Greek satyrs.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
7903
label
Appliqué in the Form of a Face
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
7903
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Appliqué in the Form of a Face
description
This object may have been attached to a faience vessel. The rather frightening appearance of the head is similar to representations of the Egyptian dwarf-god Bes or Greek satyrs.
provenance
Giovanni Dattari, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Lambros-Dattari Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1912, June 17-19, 1912, p. 55, no. 490; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1st century CE (Roman)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
appliqué (visual works)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
med
Egyptian faience
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
EGY
exhibition_ids
10
358
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
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