The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

304–30 BCE

(332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)

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

Horus the Child (Harpocrates) was always shown in the childish attitude of holding a finger to his mouth.

Purchased from R.H. Blanchard, Blanchard's Egyptian Museum, Cairo, by John L. Severance
Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. Mentioned: p. 86, cat. no. 260 archive.org
Wunderlich, Silvia. "Department of Egyptian Art: Bronzes." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (November 1942): 158-159 Mentioned: p. 158 www.jstor.org
Cooney, John D. “Harpocrates, the Dutiful Son.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 10 (December 1972): 284–290. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 286-287, fig. 4 www.jstor.org
Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 478
Agut-Labordère, Damien, and Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia. L'Egypte des pharaons: de Narmer, 3150 av. J.-C.-284 apr J.-C. Morangis: Editions Belin, 2016. Mentioned: p. 705; Reproduced: p. 705
Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).
CMA 1942, no. 260
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