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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4959711, member: 110350"]Isis with Harpocrates/infant Horus on her lap first appeared in the form of Egyptian bronze statuary hundreds of years before the theme's first appearance on an Alexandrian coin -- which occurred, according to Emmett, in the reign of Trajan. See the quotations above from the Met and the Louvre. (The name "Harpocrates" for the child Horus wasn't introduced until the Ptolemaic period, I believe.) I will defer to others on the chronology of visible representations of the Virgin and Child (see the comments above); I have no idea when or whether they appeared on coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4959711, member: 110350"]Isis with Harpocrates/infant Horus on her lap first appeared in the form of Egyptian bronze statuary hundreds of years before the theme's first appearance on an Alexandrian coin -- which occurred, according to Emmett, in the reign of Trajan. See the quotations above from the Met and the Louvre. (The name "Harpocrates" for the child Horus wasn't introduced until the Ptolemaic period, I believe.) I will defer to others on the chronology of visible representations of the Virgin and Child (see the comments above); I have no idea when or whether they appeared on coins.[/QUOTE]
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