The Greeks adapted Harpocrates from the Egyptian child-god Horus and often portrayed him as a naked boy with his finger to his mouth, as seen in this bronze statuette.
The naked god is crowned with an Egyptian headdress. His left upper extremity is slightly flexed at the elbow, and the left hand reaches to the corresponding groin.
Photo: Marwān Mislmānī.
Collection of the National Museum of Damascus.
Bašīr Zuhdī. Ālihat aṭ-Ṭibb wa Mašāhidahā. Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes XXV 1975 (pp. 83-116).
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