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Jewelry Casting Mold:  Egyptian Dionysos and Harpokrates as Herakles

Jewelry Casting Mold: Egyptian Dionysos and Harpokrates as Herakles

Egyptian

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.

Black steatite or schist

Hellenistic period to Early Roman Imperial

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