Harpokrates (Horus the Child)

late 4th-late 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic) H: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm) Citation Source image

Harpokrates is shown nude, wearing a necklace or pectoral and a stylized version of the double crown of Egypt. He holds a cornucopia in his left hand and puts his right finger to his lips in a gesture common to Egyptian depictions of young children.

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Giovanni Dattari, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Lambros-Dattari Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1912, June 17-19, 1912, p. 49, no. 424; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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