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Some bronze statues recovered this week in Egypt during a police action, have turned to be a little mystery — well in keeping with the Egyptian deity, the god of silence and secrecy, they represent.
Dating to the Late Period of Egyptian history (around 688-332 B.C.), the four recovered statues were initially believed to have been stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo during the January revolution that brought down President Hosni Mubarak.
But according to a statement by the Ministry of State for Antiquities, a committee of archaeologists who verified the identity and authenticity of the artifacts, discovered that only two of them are actually pieces missing from the museum.
Not much is yet known about the other two....
One of identified statues, referred as JE 22040 in the Egyptian museum database, is a 14.8-inch-tall "bronze standing statue of Osiris," god of the afterlife.
The other, catalogued as JE 67925, is a 7-inch-tall "inscribed bronze striding statue of Harpocrates wearing the Andjety diadem."
Known in Egyptian mythology as Horus, the child of Isis and Osiris, the deity is shown with his finger in his mouth....
In fact, the Osiris has a thin layer of oxidation over smooth metal.
"It has been polished by handling. If ancient, this has come from a totally different environment, such as a desert tomb or cave," Barford said.
The committee of archaeologists is now investigating into the origin of the two mysterious statues, "so that they may also be returned to the site or museum they came from," Hawass said."
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A detailed shot of the recovered Harpocrates (JE 67925). Known in Egyptian mythology as Horus, the child of Isis and Osiris, the deity is shown with his finger in his mouth. It was a symbol of childhood, but the Greeks who conquered Egypt under Alexander the Great misinterpreted it and adopted him as Harpocrates, god of silence and secrecy.
A detailed shot of the recovered Harpocrates (JE 67925). Known in Egyptian mythology as Horus, the child of Isis and Osiris, the deity is shown with his finger in his mouth. It was a symbol of childhood, but the Greeks who conquered Egypt under Alexander the Great misinterpreted it and adopted him as Harpocrates, god of silence and secrecy.
The time for the birth of an Aeon seems to be indicated by great concentration of political power with the accompanying improvements in the means of travel and communication, with a general advance in philosophy and science, with a general need of consolidation in religious thought. It is very instructive to compare the events of the five hundred years preceding and following the crisis of approximately 2,000 years ago, with those of similar periods centred in 1904 of the old era. It is a thought far from comforting to the present generation, that 500 years of Dark Ages are likely to be upon us. But, if the analogy holds, that is the case. Fortunately, to-day we have brighter torches and more torch-bearers.
One of the identified statues, referred as JE 22040 in the Egyptian museum database, is a 14.8-inch-tall "bronze standing statue of Osiris," god of the afterlife.
The other, catalogued as JE 67925, is a 7-inch-tall "inscribed bronze striding statue of Harpocrates wearing the Andjety diadem."
As for the other two recovered statues, they are somewhat similar to those stolen at the Egyptian museum. Indeed, they also represent Osiris and Harpocrates.
"I am wondering if they are genuine. If so, I think they have come from a museum collection rather than being freshly dug up antiquities," Paul Barford, a British archaeologist who researches artifact hunting and collecting, told Discovery News.
According to Barford, who runs a blog on the market in portable antiquities, the Harpocrates has apparently corroded in the soil and has been dug up and overcleaned chemically.
Courtesy of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities The four recovered bronze statues, from left, are the statue of Harpocrates, unknown origin; bronze striding statue of Harpocrates wearing the Andjety diadem (JE 67925); statue of Osiris, unknown origin; bronze standing statue of Osiris (JE 22040).
"It really looks like the sort of way things would have been cleaned 30 years or more ago," he said.
Anyway, today i've noticed their numbers have increased from the one or two i normally see over the course of a day, and i've maybe seen 30 in total today. The weird thing is that they are acting aggressive and seem to be either trying to scare me or trying to get my attention (i've found that they have no physicality so they can't actually touch me).
By being aggressive i mean that they are getting their faces very close to mine, lurching their faces and sometimes their hands towards my face, and kind of bouncing their bodies back and forth (leaning back about 90 degrees then forewards at about a 90 degree angle, forewards and back repetitively), they also seem to be jittering or vibrating. It's unsettling but not necessarily scary, as they've been a part of my life as far back as i can remember and i've really become used to them.
I noticed the same thing some weeks ago. I still don't know what was up but it passed within a couple of days. I noticed that our metro was packed with them. Why would that be? My daughter and I saw them in buses even.
I had wondered at the time whether they were the normal shadow people we normally see or if they were shadows of an alternate reality, sort of like a split from this world but in shadow form, for whatever reason...Things are weirder all the time, but we're not at the crescendo yet. There's a lot more to come. Just enjoy things for what they are.