A figure of Harpocrates, or a chubby featured child, wearing a tunic with a bulla around his neck, head tilted and right forefinger to his chin, his curly hair elaborately dressed, with central fillet decorated with three circular discs and terminating in a pendant disc on the forehead, a plait behind -- 4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) high; Harpocrates, standing in a long tunic, wearing a double-crown, right forefinger to his lips, resting his left arm on a pillar in which he holds a cornucopia, Horus as a falcon stands on the pillar -- 7 7/8in. (19.7cm.) high; two others, one nude, seated with a jar under his left arm, remains of pink colouring; the other, wearing the side-lock of youth -- 7 1/8in. (18.1cm.) and 3½in. (8.9cm.) high respectively; and Harpocrates with double-crown, holding a cornucopia, a hole for phallus (now missing) -- 2 5/8in. (6.7cm.) high, some damaged, all circa 1st Century B.C./A.D. (5)

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A figure of Harpocrates, or a chubby featured child, wearing a tunic with a bulla around his neck, head tilted and right forefinger to his chin, his curly hair elaborately dressed, with central fillet decorated with three circular discs and terminating in a pendant disc on the forehead, a plait behind -- 4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) high; Harpocrates, standing in a long tunic, wearing a double-crown, right forefinger to his lips, resting his left arm on a pillar in which he holds a cornucopia, Horus as a falcon stands on the pillar -- 7 7/8in. (19.7cm.) high; two others, one nude, seated with a jar under his left arm, remains of pink colouring; the other, wearing the side-lock of youth -- 7 1/8in. (18.1cm.) and 3½in. (8.9cm.) high respectively; and Harpocrates with double-crown, holding a cornucopia, a hole for phallus (now missing) -- 2 5/8in. (6.7cm.) high, some damaged, all circa 1st Century B.C./A.D. (5)

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