Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Seated Harpocrates with Jar

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 16.213. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 16.213
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Roman Period
Date: 2nd–3rd century C.E.
Date range: 200 CE – 299 CE
Materials: ['Terracotta', 'pigment']
Height: 17.0 cm
Width: 10.9 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Seated Harpocrates with Jar (16.213). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17727

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Caption: Seated Harpocrates with Jar, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 6 11/16 x 4 5/16 x 1 13/16 in. (17 x 10.9 x 4.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.213. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A small seated figurine made of terracotta depicting a youthful Egyptian child-god with a vessel/jar on the lap or in front of the figure, shown in profile with painted traces.

The image shows a molded terracotta statuette of a seated figure. The figure’s head has the characteristic youthful proportions and a lock/side element suggesting a child-god iconography; the face is turned to the right, with a simplified nose and mouth. One arm/hand is raised toward the front, and the other holds or supports a large rounded jar/vessel. The jar appears integrated into the composition near the lower torso/abdomen area, with a rounded body and a small opening/edge suggested by the molding. The surface has uneven tool/modeling marks typical of terracotta manufacture, and there are visible signs of pigment/paint remaining in crevices and on the contours, though the colors are not clearly distinguishable in this grayscale image. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are visible on the photographed surfaces. No clear royal cartouche or name is present.

religious Roman Period (as catalogued); iconography consistent with later Egyptian Greco-Roman child-god representations good

Deities Harpocrates (implied by catalogue title; specific attributes not fully verifiable from image quality)

Materials Terracottapigment

Connections

Deities Harpocrates

Materials Limestone Pigment Terracotta

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 16.213 tier-2
BKM-Object 9479 tier-2

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