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Harpokrates (Horus the Child)

Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), acc. 54.474. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 54.474
Dynasty: 26th Dynasty (or later)
Date: mid 7th-late 4th century BCE (Late Period)
Date range: 664 BCE – 332 BCE
Materials: ['cast bronze']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), Harpokrates (Horus the Child) (54.474). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/220192

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Description

<p>Horus is seated, wearing the uraeus and the sidelock of youth, with his hands at his sides.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.474' rel='external'>Harpokrates (Horus the Child)</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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.

Bronze statuette of a standing Egyptian child-god figure with a sidelock wig/short hair, raising one arm and holding the other downward, wearing a crown/attachment atop the head.

The image shows a small standing human-form figure in dark cast metal, likely bronze, with a stylized youthful face and simplified facial features. The head has a crown-like element and/or upright headdress/attachment, and the figure wears a wig with a short, thick profile. One arm is raised with the hand held near shoulder level, while the other arm hangs down by the side. The body is slender with a minimally indicated torso and legs; no clear inscriptions are visible on the front. Overall surface is worn with strong highlights from lighting, obscuring fine details of jewelry or possible attribute objects. No distinct cartouche or readable hieroglyphs can be made out in the provided image.

religious Late Period to Ptolemaic/Early Roman (exact date unclear from image alone) good

Deities Harpokrates (Horus the Child)Horus (general; identification uncertain beyond catalogue)

Materials cast bronze

Connections

Deities Horus Harpocrates

Materials Cast Bronze

Cross-references (2)

Walters-AccNum 54.474 tier-2
Walters-id 6297 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Walters Art Museum (Egyptian).
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Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.