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LOT 0117
Roman Bronze Statuette of Harpocrates
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
2 7/8 in. (4 in.) (213 grams, 73 mm (276 grams total, 10.2 cm including stand)).
Presented as a very young child sitting on the ground, wearing a long tunic which covers his body and legs down to his feet; right arm bent and hand raised to the shoulder, left hand curved around an object (absent); sporting the conventional sidelock behind the right ear; mounted in a custom-made tiered wooden stand.
Provenance
Ex Hanna Saba collection, Ambassador to Egypt-USA-France (1909-1992).
Private European collection.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12098-218159.
Footnotes
His name was Hellenized in the Ptolemaic era and adopted by the Romans, indicating the mythological figure of Horus the child; he was the son of Isis and Osiris, and adored especially in Alexandria.
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LOT 0117
Roman Bronze Statuette of Harpocrates
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000€3,480 - 4,640 (for guidance only)$4,050 - 5,400 (for guidance only)
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