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Harpokrates (Horus the Child)

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Accession: 54.1981
Dynasty: Ptolemaic Dynasty
Date: late 4th-3rd century BCE (Ptolemaic)
Date range: 325 BCE – 200 BCE
Materials: ['bronze, inlaid with silver (?)']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), Harpokrates (Horus the Child) (54.1981). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/220353

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Description

<p>Harpokrates stands with his left foot advanced, his left hand held down at his side, while his right index finger touches his mouth in the standard gesture of childhood. He wears a skullcap and a sidelock of youth, and a heart pendant is shown around his neck; the god is otherwise nude.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1981' rel='external'>Harpokrates (Horus the Child)</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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Deities Horus

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Walters-AccNum 54.1981 tier-2
Walters-id 13633 tier-2

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