Harpokrates (Horus the Child) Pendant

mid 16th-early 11th century BCE (New Kingdom)

1 cm 3.2 cm 1.6 cm

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This mold-made pendant of royal blue, glass-like faience (?) with some carved detail represents Horus-the-Child seated, knees drawn up, holding a broken flail over his left shoulder. Behind the neck is a loop for suspension. The right arm and leg are missing.

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40380
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Collection of Lord Carmichael of Skirling [a few miles north of Biggar, Scotland]; Antiquities of the Collection of the Late Lord Carmichael of Skirling Sale, Sotheby and Company, London, June 9, 1926, p. 24, lot 245 (79); Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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