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Estimate
GBP (£) 200 - 300
EUR (€) 230 - 350
USD ($) 270 - 400
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
4 3/4 in. (5 3/4 in.) (146 grams, 12.2 cm (202 grams total, 13.7 cm including stand)).
Modelled in the round depicted in a seated pose with bold sidelock reaching to the shoulder; kilt to the thighs, D-shaped base beneath the feet, socket to the middle of the back; provided with a custom-made display stand.
PROVENANCE:
with Max Hagemann, prior 1964.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Tiribilli, E., The bronze figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400, GHP Egyptology 28, London, 2018, p.58, no. 62, for a similar statuette.
FOOTNOTES:
Harpocrates is the Greek rendering of the Egyptian Hor-pa-khered, which translates as 'Horus the Child', referring to Horus as the divine infant of Isis and Osiris.
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