British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan · other

ampulla

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Description

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… View more about description

Cross-references (2)

  • BM-Object Y_EA15476 tier-2
  • BM-Registration 1879,1120.36 tier-2
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