Egyptian Bronze Harpokrates Pendant

LATE-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.

2 7/8 in. (20.7 grams, 72 mm).

Modelled seated with his arms by his sides, wearing a sidelock of youth and the remains of an elaborate hem-hem crown; partial suspension loop behind the headdress.

Provenance

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Literature

Cf. Roeder, G., Ägyptische Bronzefiguren II, Berlin, 1956, pl. 20e, for a similar example.

Footnotes

Harpocrates is the Greek version of the Egyptian Hor-pa-khered, which means ‘Horus the Child’. This name refers to Horus as the divine infant of Isis and Osiris. Wearing an amulet of Harpocrates was believed to provide the same protection that Isis offered to her beloved son.

CONDITION

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