Harpokrates or another child god with the club of Herakles

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332–30 BC · Green Faience · Egyptian Art

Harpokrates was frequently represented in Hellenistic form. In this small amulet where the child-god is recognizable by the finger to his mouth, he also holds the knobby club of Herakles. The identification of Harpokrates and Herakles seems to go back to warrior characteristics the Egyptian god had acquired in earlier syncretisms with other Egyptian gods.

Artist

Unknown

Date

332–30 BC

Medium

Green Faience

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921