Posted 6 years ago
Lifizgood
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Can anyone help identify possible era in which this figurine was depicted?? Any info you can give about headwear age etc? Thank you
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Posted 6 years ago
Lifizgood
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Can anyone help identify possible era in which this figurine was depicted?? Any info you can give about headwear age etc? Thank you
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Looks like the crown of upper Egypt. Could be any pharao. Tutankamon perhaps ?
Possibly Osiris !~
Thank you for the help. I will add more headdress pics
I think I found the info. From Boston museum a seated statuette of Harpokrates. Not sure but looks like it. I keep searching.
Your right lifizzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..
https://www.google.com/search?q=Harpocrates+pictures&rlz=1C1HLDY_enUS829US829&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyy5Cp8f_fAhXqct8KHZFcCWcQsAR6BAgFEAE&biw=1536&bih=755#imgrc=R55YIABjcGhutM:
Harpocrates (Ancient Greek: ??????????) was the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality in the Hellenistic religion developed in Ptolemaic Alexandria (and also an embodiment of hope, according to Plutarch). Harpocrates was adapted by the Greeks from the Egyptian child god Horus, who represented the newborn sun, rising each day at dawn. Harpocrates's name was a Hellenization of the Egyptian Har-pa-khered or Heru-pa-khered, meaning "Horus the Child"