Figurine

48-2-242

Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery

From: Turkey (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 48-2-242
Current Location Rome Gallery - On Display
Culture Roman
Provenience Turkey (uncertain)
Section Mediterranean
Materials Bronze
Iconography Harpokrates
Description

Harpokrates. Green patina cleaned to metal in 1966. Right forefinger and left hand are broken off. Face is badly rubbed. Right foot is broken and repaired. Chubby boy wears only an Egyptian crown and pigtail. Holds fingures to lips, places his weight on his right foot. Details of anatomy and headgear are grooved.

Height 8.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948
Other Number 228 - Collector Number | L-2-210 - Old Loan Number

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