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Harpokrates (Horus the Child)

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Accession: 71.506
Dynasty: Ptolemaic Dynasty
Date: 4th-1st century BC (Ptolemaic)
Date range: 400 BCE – 1 BCE
Materials: ['hippopotamus ivory']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), Harpokrates (Horus the Child) (71.506). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/220366

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Description

<p>This finely modeled figure of the young god Horus-the-Child (called Harpocrates by the Greeks) shows him, as ususal, sucking his finger. He wears the typical juvenile sidelock, but also has short curly hair, indicated by fine incised lines. Teh deep-set eyes reveal the influence of Greek art on late representations of this well-known Egyptian god.The legs and left arm are damaged.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.506' rel='external'>Harpokrates (Horus the Child)</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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Deities Horus Harpocrates

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Walters-AccNum 71.506 tier-2
Walters-id 12603 tier-2

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