M0011112: Bronze figure of the Egyptian deity Harpocrates, also known as Horus the Younger

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Horus or Harpocrates, Egyptian deity, figure in Wellcome.

The item was purchased at auction in 1919 by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1945 (accession number R82/1945). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

November 1949

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item (acc. number R68/1945 image 101)

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.