Harpokrates or another child god with the club of Herakles
Unknown Artist
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.
Credit: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921
332-30 BC
Green faience
1.4 in
21.6.52
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020
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