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Harpocrates with temple shrine, clay, pressed into the form, hand-modeled, fired , 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, Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty