Harpokrates (Horus the Child)

2nd century BCE-1st century CE (Ptolemaic-Roman Imperial)

10.6 cm 33.2 cm

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Nude Harpokrates stands in a marked S-curve; his legs are broken and missing below the knees, while the arms, apparently mechanically riveted on, are lost. Comparisons with other representations of Harpokrates suggest that he held a cornucopia in his proper left arm and put hi...

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown; said to be from the Delta of Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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