Pendant, Harpocrates with Anubis and Horus Falcom

Description Harpokrates, or "Horus the Child," the son of Isis and Osiris, is represented as a young boy with a child's sidelock of hair, sucking his finger. He holds a cornucopia (horn of plenty), wears the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt with a crescent at the front, and is accompanied by a variety of fertility attributes.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1926