This small statuette of Harpokrates was found in the catacombs of the Falcon Complex in the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara, where offerings made in the shrine were buried after an undetermined period. Inscribed material suggests this branch of the catacombs was sealed in about 89 B.C., dating the statuette to that time or earlier. In such a context the donation of a statue of Harpokrates-or "Horus-the-child"-is certainly connected to the fact that the falcon was the sacred animal of Horus.
