British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan · other
ampulla
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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