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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Antiquities by Material| > |Terracotta Antiquities| > AS20846
Roman Egyptian, Terracotta Bust of Harpocrates with Finger to Mouth, 1st - 3rd Century A.D.
|Terracotta| |Antiquities|, |Roman| |Egyptian,| |Terracotta| |Bust| |of| |Harpocrates| |with| |Finger| |to| |Mouth,| |1st| |-| |3rd| |Century| |A.D.|, From the collection of Alex G. Malloy, former dealer in antiquities for 40 years.

Shhhhh! quiet!... In Greek mythology, Harpocrates is the god of silence. Harpocrates was very popular in Egypt during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, as evidenced by his numerous terracotta household idols, such as this one.
AS20846. Roman Egyptian bust of Harpocrates; cf. BMC Terracottas IV 3043 ff., Kaufmann Agyptische 28, Average, even wear, 5.6 cm (2 1/4") high, beige terracotta, bust of Harpocrates with right hand and finger to mouth, wearing horn and sun-disk headdress; fragment broken from a larger idol, unmounted; SOLD











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