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Head from a figure of a child god, perhaps Harpokrates

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 2021.41.42. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 2021.41.42
Period: Late Period (Saite)–Ptolemaic Period
Date: ca. 664–30 B.C.
Date range: 664 BCE – 30 BCE
Materials: ['faience']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Head from a figure of a child god, perhaps Harpokrates (2021.41.42). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/27162

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Head from an amulet of Harpokrates, child god. Late Period (Saite)–Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664–30 B.C. Faience. H. 2.3 × W. 2 × D. 2.2 cm (7/8 × 13/16 × 7/8 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020.

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