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Bronze Harpokrates Figure (the infant Horus) Roman period, 1 cen. BC - 2 cen. AD. Size: 40 mm. high. - Descriptions of the type : Harpokrates wears the pschent (the double crown of the Two Lands of Egypt) and carries a Cornucopia in his left arm. Leaning on a tree with a snake coiling around it. He is shown with his forefinger to his lips, a pose that dates back to the New Kingdom in the Late Bronze Age. It was interpreted by Roman writers as signifying secrecy with regard to the mysteries of the Egyptian cult.