Torso of Harpokrates

746-335 BCE (Late Period) H: 9 3/8 in. (23.89 cm) Citation Source image

The nude boy wearing a royal headdress with the uraeus represents the child god of kingship Harpokrates, which means "Horus the Child." The figure was made from several pieces of wood and once had inlayed eyes and brows made of precious materials. Originally, it was part of a...

Sculpture

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Navare, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Beni Suef]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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