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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8277212, member: 110350&quot;]Further thanks for your allowing me to &quot;see&quot; Harpocrates as a left-facing crowned bust, seen in profile, with his left arm and forefinger held up to his mouth:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461415[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So here is my newly-revised description of the tessera, without the footnotes:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461418[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Anonymous, unpublished, AE[?] Tessera, 2nd Century AD[?], Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Crowned Bust of Nilus left, with cornucopiae behind and, in front, bust of Harpocrates [infant Horus], seen in profile, facing left, wearing skhent crown, with left arm and forefinger held up to mouth / Rev.&nbsp; On left, Serpent Uraeus [sacred cobra, worn by deities and pharaohs] with human head of Isis (as Isis-Thermouthis), crowned with solar disk and horns, standing facing, with coils enfolding sistrum upright to left*; on right, Osiris (mummiform) wearing Atef crown above horns, standing facing with arms crossed over chest holding crook and flail.** 15.60 mm., 2.52 g. <i>Purchased from Naville Numismatics Auction 72 (27 Mar 2022), Lot 305; ex. “private British collection.”</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>There&#039;s a reason I decided to omit the word &quot;Canopus&quot; in describing the second figure on the reverse: I have never seen a Canopus that has arms, whether holding a crook and flail or otherwise. A Canopus is a jar (or, technically, by the time of their numismatic portrayals, an imitation jar), and jars don&#039;t have arms! Nor have I seen any Canopi that are mummiform, as this figure appears to be. Finally, Canopus jars are usually more &quot;jar-shaped,&quot; i.e., fatter. This figure is shaped more like one of the mummiform Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures, except that those are in profile and hold Ptah&#039;s jackal-headed scepter rather than the crook and flail. So that&#039;s why I described the figure as above.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, does everyone agree that this tessera seems to be unpublished? (Unless it&#039;s somewhere in one of the additional Dattari-Savio plates.) I have had no luck trying to search for it on RPC Online, even under &quot;uncertain reign,&quot; given the inability to search specifically for tesserae.&nbsp; Is it worth submitting it to RPC so they can consider adding it to their database? Does anyone know how to do that? </p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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