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Pendant, Harpocrates with Anubis and Horus Falcom
(Roman Empire )
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
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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Roman Empire (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H without mount: 1 x W: 5/16 x D: 1/16 in. (2.48 x 0.78 x 0.2 cm); Mount H: 13/16 x W: 1 x D: 11/16 in. (2.1 x 2.6 x 1.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1926
Location in Museum
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
57.1434