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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Salaethus, post: 4015620, member: 109856&quot;][ATTACH=full]1055950[/ATTACH]</p><p>An ancient Egyptian bronze statuette of the God Harpokrates, shown seated wearing the sidelock of youth, sun-disc and tripartite wig, dating to Egypt&#039;s Late Period, approximately 664-323 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>Harpokrates is the Greek name for the Egyptian God Horus, depicted in his child form with finger to the mouth - a recognition of the Egyptian &quot;child&quot; hieroglyph. He was the God of the sunrise, and was often depicted as a falcon.</p><p><br /></p><p>A suspension loop at the back would have enabled the figure to be worn as an amulet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Height: 3 1/2 inches.</p><p><br /></p><p>Provenance:</p><p>Ex. ArtAncient Ltd, Ex-Collection of C.E.Best (died 1973). Cecil Best was an incredibly colorful character. Educated at Ardingley college in the late 1800&#039;s, Best trained as a banker but subsequently worked as a miner, soldier, merchant, editor and singer. He served as syllabus secretary at the Theosophical Society, England, where he met his future wife Inayat Khan, who converted him to the Sufism form of Islam and renamed him Shahbaz. Shahbaz Best, as he was now known, traveled to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to spread his religion and work as a banker. It was during this time that he met H.E.Inman, a marine engineer, who gifted him his collection of antiquities that he had acquired in lieu of payment from the Egyptian government between 1910-1912. The antiquities were excavated from tombs in lower Egypt and were on display at the Southampton Museum in England after the death of Mr. Best in 1973.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also have a similar Isis statuette from the collection of Mr. Best, unfortunately I don&#039;t have any photos of it on hand.&nbsp; I like these kinds of provenanced pieces when you can find them, for me it adds a lot of interest, especially learning about and having a connection to Henk Huffener, whose incredibly brave and admirable story is fascinating enough on its own.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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