Lot 869
Exceptional, Finely Detailed Bronze Statuette of Harpocrates. Egypt, Late Period to Ptolemaic, c. 7th-2nd century BC. A bronze statuette of the god as a seated nude small boy, with right forefinger to his lips, wearing a neck amulet, a nemes headdress with side-lock of youth and central uraeus, this surmounted by a finely detailed, broad hemhem crown (comprised of ram horns, feathers, and papyrus bundles). His feet on tenoned base. In remarkable preservation, and richly detailed. Attractive dark brown and green, with occasional red, patina. Height: 6-1/4", on custom base. A delightful little masterpiece!
Estimated Value $7,500 - 12,500.
Phocian J. Tano, in Cairo, ca. 1900; noted by him as being found at "Mentelis dans le Basse Egypte."
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