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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.176
Title
Jewelry Casting Mold: Egyptian Dionysos and Harpokrates as Herakles
Classification
Artists' Tools
Work Type
mold
Date
c. 100 BCE - c. 100 CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Egypt (Ancient)
Period
Hellenistic period to Early Roman Imperial
Culture
Egyptian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/176959

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black steatite or schist
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
H. 9.3 x W. 8.9 x D. 1 cm (3 11/16 x 3 1/2 x 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
N/A

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, David M. Robinson Fund
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.176
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

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.

Publication History

  • Ergün Laflı and Werner Seibt, “Seven Byzantine Lead Seals from the Museum of Ödemiş in Western Anatolia”, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (Oxford, 2020), vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 21-39, pp. 34-38, figs. 8-9

Verification Level

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