Bronze Statuette of a Riding Harpocrates

Culture: Egyptian

Period: Roman period, 1st-2nd century A.D.

Material: Bronze

Dimensions: 5.5 cm high

Price: Sold

Ref: 1194

Provenance: French private collection, acquired in a French auction house.

Condition: Right arm missing.

Description: Small bronze statuette of a nude Harpocrates holding in his left hand a cornucopia (horn of plenty). The child god with curly hair, chubby face and a corpulent, beautifully worked out body. The spread legs and flattened back suggest that the boy once rode on an animal which is lost today. Mounted.