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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 8322286, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my specimen. References: Emmett-4062.08; Geissen-UNLISTED; Dattari-5696; Milne-5021. Ex-<i>Auctiones GmbH (Bern, Switzerland): eAuction #59, Lot #128. </i>Note: the &#039;nude child&#039; in the description is probably Prometheus, given the posture in the mosaic cited above.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474419[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Achilles Tatius’ description of the cult image of Harpokrates of Pelousion (Achilles Tatius 3.6), given in his tale of the adventures of the lovers Klitophon and Leukippe, is frustratingly brief and offers no clue as to how the youthful deity became associated with Zeus. Coins and gems serve as the primary evidence for the iconography of the sanctuary’s cult statue.</p><p><br /></p><p>For more on Harpokrates of Pelusium see <a href="https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/146819.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/146819.pdf" rel="nofollow">&quot;Harpokrates (Zeus Kasios) of Pelusium&quot; </a>[DOI: 10.2307/146819] by C Bonner (in Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol 15, No 1, Jan-Mar, 1946 [pp 55: &quot;The three coins just mentioned show that the type that they present, whatever its relation to the Pelusian cult may be, maintained itself for about twenty-five years in the latter half of the third century]&quot;. The festival of The Harpokratia in Graeco-Roman Egypt is discussed <a href="https://www.academia.edu/38445052/The_Harpokratia_in_Graeco_Roman_Egypt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/38445052/The_Harpokratia_in_Graeco_Roman_Egypt" rel="nofollow">here.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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