Statue of Harpocrates with cornucopia
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Statue of Harpocrates with cornucopia
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Harpocrates ( Ἁρποκράτης) 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.
To the ancient Egiptians, Horus represented the newborn sun, rising each day at dawn. When the Greeks conquered Egypt under Alexander the Great, they transformed the Egyptian Horus into the Hellenistic god known as Harpocrates, a rendering from Egyptian Har-pa-khered or Heru-pa-khered "Horus the Child".
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| Date published | 06/04/2017 |
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| Title | Statue of Harpocrates with cornucopia |
| Date | II century BC |
| Dimension | Life-size |
| Period | Imperial Rome |
| Medium | Marble |
| Place | National Roman Museum |
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