Harpokrates with double crown, cornucopia, and pot

Harpokrates with double crown, cornucopia, and pot

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Images created in the traditionally Greek medium of molded terracotta were popular in domestic and funerary contexts. This one depicts Harpokrates, who by the Roman Period, had become a fertility god. His round pot probably contains fertilizing Nile water or perhaps, food.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.