Egyptian Bronze Harpokrates

An ancient Egyptian bronze statuette of the god Harpokrates. The child god is nude, seated and pointing his right forefinger to his mouth, his feet resting on a trapezoidal foot-stool. He wears the nemes-head cloth with uraeus, diadem, and fragmentary hemhem crown.

30th Dynasty to Ptolemaic Period,

Ca. 380 - 30 BC.

Height: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm).

Formerly in the William H. and Lily F. Diehl collection, New York, acquired in 1947, most probably from Maguid Sameda, 55 Sharia Ibrahim Pasha, Cairo; subsequently in the Walter H. (1920-1981) and Martha W. Diehl collection; American private collection by descent.

Inv#: 6601

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$7,500