Harpocrates with temple shrine, clay, pressed into the form, hand-modeled, fired (ceramic), clay, Total: Height: 14.4 cm; Width: 9.4 cm; Depth: 5 cm, Pottery, Egyptian gods, demigods, heroes, Harpocrates, seated figure, Early Imperial period, Middle Imperial period, Late Imperial period, The childlike, corpulent harpocrates with youth curl is enthroned on a profiled hexagonal base with a blanket With his left hand he holds a small temple shrine placed on his knee. He has led his right index finger to his mouth in a gesture typical of the god. He is naked except for a cloth laid over his thighs, which leaves his thick belly and penis free. On his chest lies a so-called heart amulet. The skull is decorated with a wreath and the double crown flanked by two buds. Harpocrates, Horus as a child, is the most favored figure among the Greco-Roman terracottas besides the goddess Isis. The depictions have undergone a thorough Hellenization, whereby native Egyptian features are always connected with Greek ones. The shaven head with horus curl is Egyptian. The temple shrine is - as the comparisons show - quite rare. The figure belongs to the group of the so-called Fayum terracottas. In Alexandria, the international, Greek-influenced center of Egypt, lived a multicultural society of Egyptians, Orientals, Greeks, Romans, Jews and others, whose different religious ideas gradually merged. Insights into this world of faith are provided by the so-called Fayum terracottas. They are part of the religious household, children's toys, knick-knacks, but also cult symbols, grave goods, pilgrimage images, votive offerings and magical objects for banishing evil forces. They can be found in houses, graves and sanctuaries.

Harpocrates with temple shrine, clay, pressed into the form, hand-modeled, fired (ceramic), clay, Total: Height: 14.4 cm; Width: 9.4 cm; Depth: 5 cm, Pottery, Egyptian gods, demigods, heroes, Harpocrates, seated figure, Early Imperial period, Middle Imperial period, Late Imperial period, The childlike, corpulent harpocrates with youth curl is enthroned on a profiled hexagonal base with a blanket With his left hand he holds a small temple shrine placed on his knee. He has led his right index finger to his mouth in a gesture typical of the god. He is naked except for a cloth laid over his thighs, which leaves his thick belly and penis free. On his chest lies a so-called heart amulet. The skull is decorated with a wreath and the double crown flanked by two buds. Harpocrates, Horus as a child, is the most favored figure among the Greco-Roman terracottas besides the goddess Isis. The depictions have undergone a thorough Hellenization, whereby native Egyptian features are always connected with Greek ones. The shaven head with horus curl is Egyptian. The temple shrine is - as the comparisons show - quite rare. The figure belongs to the group of the so-called Fayum terracottas. In Alexandria, the international, Greek-influenced center of Egypt, lived a multicultural society of Egyptians, Orientals, Greeks, Romans, Jews and others, whose different religious ideas gradually merged. Insights into this world of faith are provided by the so-called Fayum terracottas. They are part of the religious household, children's toys, knick-knacks, but also cult symbols, grave goods, pilgrimage images, votive offerings and magical objects for banishing evil forces. They can be found in houses, graves and sanctuaries.

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