Lot 81
  • 81

An Egyptian Bronze Figure of Harpocrates, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C.

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • An Egyptian Bronze Figure of Harpocrates
  • Bronze
  • Height 8 in. 20.3 cm.
seated with his fragmentary right forefinger pointing to his mouth, and wearing a broad beaded collar, braided side-lock, and the cap of Amun with plumes and sun-disk, his face with with smiling mouth and large eyes with remains of silver overlay.

Provenance

acquired in the mid-1960s, almost certainly from the Joseph Steiglitz Gallery, 71 Allenby Road, Tel Aviv

Condition

Good and as shown and described. Minor nicks and abrasions, surface somewhat worn, small crack at proper left elbow, head of uraeus missing.
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Catalogue Note

Cf. G. Roeder, Aegyptische Bronzefiguren, Berlin, 1956, pl. 20c.