Horus the Child (Harpocrates) Figure

1963.157.11

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Bronze stauette of Horus the Child (Harpocrates). Seated. Broken below the knees. Accompanied by a letter headed note: THE METROPOLITTAN MUSEUM OF ART. Department of Egyptian Art. “Bronze seated figure of Harpocrates (Har-pa-khrod, Horus the child) waering the royal uraeus on his brow and the side-lock of youth. XXVI Dyn. to Ptolemaic period (possibly as early as XVII Dyn.).”