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Source Description
Harpokrates is shown seated, although his original seat has been lost. He places his right index finger at his mouth in the customary gesture of childhood and has a sidelock of youth. He wears a royal headcloth with uraeus and a large hemhem crown; aside from an engraved collar, he is otherwise nude. The eyes are inlaid with silver.
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Document identity
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24320
label
Harpokrates (Horus the Child)
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object
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1
Source metadata
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24320
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object
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normalized
title
Harpokrates (Horus the Child)
description
Harpokrates is shown seated, although his original seat has been lost. He places his right index finger at his mouth in the customary gesture of childhood and has a sidelock of youth. He wears a royal headcloth with uraeus and a large hemhem crown; aside from an engraved collar, he is otherwise nude. The eyes are inlaid with silver.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be ""from the Pyramids]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
mid 8th-mid 4th century BCE (Late Period)
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CC0
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en
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statuettes (statues)
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1
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm)
Source extras
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Egyptian
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bronze; silver inlaid eyes
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6182
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none
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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