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Jewelry Casting Mold: Egyptian Dionysos and Harpokrates as Herakles
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Two-sided incised jewelery mold of a dark grey/black stone. One side depicts Harpokrates as a young Dionysos wearing a hem-hem crown, holding a thyrsos. At the border is a depiction of Harpokrates as Herakles wearing nemes and hem-hem. The reverse side reveals Baubo and a bunch of grapes.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
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Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum David M. Robinson Fund
Title: Jewelry Casting Mold: Egyptian Dionysos and Harpokrates as Herakles
Description:
Two-sided incised jewelery mold of a dark grey/black stone.
One side depicts Harpokrates as a young Dionysos wearing a hem-hem crown, holding a thyrsos.
At the border is a depiction of Harpokrates as Herakles wearing nemes and hem-hem.
The reverse side reveals Baubo and a bunch of grapes.
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