Horus as a Child

CultureEgyptian

Date4th-1st century B.C.E.

MediumBronze with gold and silver inlay

DimensionsOverall: 9 1/2 inches (24.13 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number55-100

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

Ancient Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kanas City, Missouri, March 18 2023 - June 18 2023, hors cat.

Echoes of Eternity: The Egyptian Mummy and the Afterlife, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 4, 1999 -May 7, 2000.

Provenance

With Paul Mallon, New York, by 1955;

Purchased from Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1955.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 22.

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 30.

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