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Left arm and hand of a Romano-Egyptian statuette of Isis, holding a lotus plant on which Harpocrates sits
Roman Provincial
Late Hellenistic or Imperial Period
about 50 B.C.–A.D. 100, or perhaps later
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Height x length: 7.3 x 7.5 cm (2 7/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Source unidentified
Accession Number68.39
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek, Etruscan, & Roman Bronzes (MFA), no. 150; Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), p. 121 (additional published references).
DescriptionThe upper arm seems to have fitted (via a tenon) into a draped statue. Harpocrates is nude, with his right index finger raised toward his mouth;. The work is schematic, being partly incised. Pitty, greenish-black Egyptian patina.
ProvenanceSource unknown; previously in the MFA as Apparatus; accessioned March 13, 1968