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"title": "Egyptomania: Fashion\u2019s Conflicted Obsession",
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"description": "Robert Hecht (1919\u20132012), New York, NY (said by Hecht to have been purchased from a family in England in whose possession it had been for about a century. Said by Hecht to have been brought from Egypt c. 1870)",
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"did_you_know": "The gesture this figure makes refers to the Egyptian hieroglyph for child, nn, \ud80c\udc01.",
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"description": "Combining Hellenistic naturalism with a finger gesture associated with childhood in Egyptian tradition, this young figure represents Harpocrates, the Greek form of the Egyptian child sun god Horus, or Hor-pa-khred. A hole atop his head likely once held a double crown of Egypt, as on more traditionally Egyptian representations of Harpocrates.",
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"citation": "Zick, Gisela. \"Amor0Harpokrates: Zur Wirkungsgeschichte und Ikonographischen Herleitung einer Skulptur von Etienne0Maurice Falconet,\" Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 37 (1975).",
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"citation": "Swan Hall, Emma. \"Harpocrates and Other Child Deities in Ancient Egyptian Sculpture.\" Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) 56 (1977).",
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