Harpocrates

La statuette d’Harpocrate du British Museum.

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J.Ferron – Carthage

 RSF 2

A comparison of the statues of the British Museum and that of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid. The one in London has the number 132908. It is made of bronze and shows a child-god with one foot in front of the other. It is the Egyptian way. There we have Isis and Osiris and the child Horus. During the XXI and XXII dynasty Horus is followed up by Khonsou the child.

 

Inscription:

wḥq nn      = this was engraved by NN

b‘lbn'         = the architect

 

Combined with all the available data the complete inscription could be:

ḥrpkrṭ ytn

ḥym l‘ms bn ’šmnytn bn ‘

zrmlk wḥq nn

b‘lbn’

 

Translation:

That Harpocrates will grant

The life to ‘MS, son of Ešmoenyaton, son of ‘

Azarmilk. This was engraved by NN, the architect.

 

ḥr p.’ hrd (Egyptian) = Horus the child and that was translated in Phoenician as: ḥrpkrṭ.

The Greeks called it finally Harpokrates.

 

 

 

 

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