id:			122513
accession number:	1942.777
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.777
updated:		2023-08-29 11:33:54.945000

Statuette of Harpocrates, 304–30 BC. Egypt, Greco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Dynasty. Bronze, solid cast; overall: 18.6 x 5.7 x 10.5 cm (7 5/16 x 2 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.777

title:				Statuette of Harpocrates
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series:				
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creation date:			304–30 BC
creation date earliest:		-304
creation date latest:		-30
current location:		107 Egyptian
creditline:			Bequest of John L. Severance
copyright:			

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culture:	Egypt, Greco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Dynasty
technique:	bronze, solid cast
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - Ptolemaic Dynasty
type:		Sculpture
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 18.6 x 5.7 x 10.5 cm (7 5/16 x 2 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection
	opening date:   1942-11-12T04:00:00
	<i>Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1942, no. 260

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PROVENANCE

	Purchased from R.H. Blanchard, Blanchard's Egyptian Museum, Cairo, by John L. Severance
	date: 
	footnotes: 	
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wall description:
Horus the Child (Harpocrates) was always shown in the childish attitude of holding a finger to his mouth.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 86, cat. no. 260
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n90

	Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 478
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	Agut-Labordère, Damien, and Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia. <em>L'Egypte des pharaons: de Narmer, 3150 av. J.-C.-284 apr J.-C</em>. Morangis: Editions Belin, 2016.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 705; Reproduced: p. 705
	url:		

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