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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Figurine of Horus as a Child
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Figurine of Horus as a Child

Artist Unknown
DateLate Period, 664-332 B.C.E.
MediumBronze with marble base
DimensionsOverall: 6 in. (15.2 cm)
Base: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)
ClassificationsEgyptian
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number77.892
Terms
  • Religion
  • Bronze
Collections
On View
On view
DescriptionFigurine of a naked child sitting on a block seat, his arms along his body. He is wearing the nemes, a cloth headdress falling onto the chest, crowned by a pair of curled ram horns, a triple atef crown (a high conical headpiece), and two reared cobras with sun-disks. A braid comes out of the nemes on his right side.

Label TextFigurine of Horus as a Child Late Period, ca. 664-332 B.C.E. Bronze Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 77.892
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Wall fragment
Unknown
Ptolemaic Period, 170-116 B.C.E.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Seated Pharaoh
Unknown
New Kingdom, Dynasty 20, ca 1293-1079 B.C. | Modern
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Head of Osiris
Unknown
Roman Period, 30 B.C.E.-395 C.E.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Votive Head/Pharaoh
Unknown
Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Figurine of Horus as a Child
Unknown
Ptolemaic Period, 332 - 30 B.C.E.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Wall fragment
Unknown
Dynasty 19, reign of Ramses II, ca. 1279-1212 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Crouching Sphinx
Unknown
ca. 600 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Scarab
Unknown
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Osiris Figurine
Unknown
Third Intermediate Period - Late Period, Dynasty 25-26, ca. 747-525 B.C.E.
Photograph by Shannon Ruff, Canon EOS Mark II D digital slr-2007.
Torso
Unknown
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 11-12 (i.e. 2055-1773 B.C.).
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Lintel with the Name of the God's Wife Amenardis
Unknown
740-656 B.C.E.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Relief of a cow
Unknown
No Date
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