1200-736 BCE (New Kingdom-early Third Intermediate Period)
Description:
The feet have broken away from this black-speckled carnelian representation of Horus-the-Child, but the angle of the legs suggests he was seated on his mother's lap. A loop protruding from the shoulders is also broken off.For the latest information about this object, pendants; amulets; figurine, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: 19th-23rd DynastyInscriptions: Reign: Style:
Collection of Lord Carmichael of Skirling [a few miles north of Biggar, Scotland] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Antiquities of the Collection of the Late Lord Carmichael of Skirling Sale, Sotheby and Company, London, June 9, 1926, p. 22, lot 235 (21); Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Medium:
carnelian
Extent:
Dimensions: H: 3/4 x W: 7/16 x D: 1/16 in. (1.93 x 1.15 x 0.09 cm)