Harpocrates Head Fragment
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Hirshhorn
label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. FRAGMENT. HEAD WITH HEADDRESS; HAND RAISED TO CHEEK. INSCRIPTION ON BACK OF HEAD.
label: Notes
content: Head of Harpocrates. Face of a child, ornate headdress and gesture pointing towards the mouth are all characteristics of the Greco-Egyptian god. (Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli. The Greek World: Art and Civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily. Rizzoli International Publications, NY. 1996, p. 744, 368)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: A553141-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 8.9 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 8.26 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 5 cm