Phoenician Harpocrates statues

The Madrid statue

The Phoenician Harpocrates statues are two copper alloy statues of the Greco-Egyptian god Harpocrates, with Phoenician inscriptions on their bases. The first statue was found in Madrid in the 18th century and is today in the National Archaeological Museum (Madrid) and the second was acquired by the British Museum in 1960 (BM 132908).[1][2]

The inscriptions are known as KAI 52, and feature in Gibson's Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions as III 37 and 38.

  1. ^ Barnett, R. D. “A Review of Acquisitions 1955-62 of Western Asiatic Antiquities (II).” The British Museum Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, 1963, pp. 79–88. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/4422826. Accessed 10 Oct. 2022.
  2. ^ "Statue | British Museum".

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