A hollow-cast bronze statuette of Horus as a child, also known as Harpocrates. The figure is modelled in the round depicted in a seated pose with bold sidelock reaching to the shoulder; kilt to the thighs, D-shaped base beneath the feet, socket to the middle of the back; provided with a custom-made display stand.
 
Egyptian Late Period, 664-332 BC.
 
Condition: Fragmentary, in archaeological condition and missing much of the right arm; the details of the face are quite worn, and the figure has a hole in the back as well as various cracks and fractures. However, the metal is strong and stable.
Height 12 cms (4.7 ins). Height with stand 13.7 cms (5.4 ins)
 
Provenance: with Max Hagemann, prior 1964.
 
Reference: Tiribilli, E., The bronze figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400, GHP Egyptology 28, London, 2018, p.58, no. 62, for a similar statuette.
 
Harpocrates is the Greek rendering of the Egyptian Hor-pa-khered, which translates as 'Horus the Child', referring to Horus as the divine infant of Isis and Osiris.