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Greenseer ,
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show and tell for a lesser known Ptolemaic god, Harpokrates, a Hellenic interpretation of the Egyptian god of the newborn sun, Horus, as a child. Usually depicted with finger pressed to his lips and often with roses, he also later became associated with secrets and silence, leading to the concept of 'sub rosa'. Here shown on the reverse of a rare bronze obol struck in 137 to 138 CE under Hadrian, in Alexandria, Egypt, wearing a pharaonic hemhem crown

taoish ,
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@Greenseer There's a theory that the famous ROTAS/SATOR palindromic square is a coded paen to Harpocrates.

Greenseer OP ,
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@taoish Ah, because of the AREPO line. I hadn't heard that one before 👍🏻

taoish ,
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@Greenseer
Exactly.

Miroslav Marcovich,
"Sator arepo = ΓΕΩΡΓΟϹ ῾ΑΡΠΟΝ (ΚΝΟΥΦΙ) ῾ΑΡΠΩϹ, arpo(cra), harpo(crates)", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 50 (1983), pp. 155-171 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20183770

Like most ROTAS/SATOR square theories, it's entirely plausible, not falsifiable, and unlikely to be true.

Why? BC it makes sense for Pompeii, but not so much for the Roman-era squares in Portugal, Pannonia (Hungary), Britain, Syria, etc.

Greenseer OP ,
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@taoish Until a papyrus with a direct reference an ΑΡEΠΟ is found, it's impossible to say. But now I can't stop thinking of the middle Marx brother 😁

taoish ,
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@Greenseer
Ha! Love the Marx Brothers, and the Harpo theory makes as much sense as most explanations of AREPO.

If you @medievodon @histodons

Greenseer OP ,
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@taoish @medievodon @histodons I'm afraid it would be a one-sided process as I have no notes to share. I am aware of it, but that's all. I'd be very interested in reading more tho'. After I cracked that joke about Harpo, I found out that apparently there was a running joke that he was named after Harpocrates, as the mute member of the trio. It wasn't actually true, apparently. He was named for the harp he played

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