Gisb. Cuperi Harpocrates, sive, Explicatio imagunculae argenteae perantiquae, quae in figuram Harpocratis formata representat solem : ejusdem Monumenta antiqua inedita ... ; accedit Stephani Le Moine Epistola de Melanophoris
A 1687 Latin antiquarian treatise by Gisbert Cuper, published at Utrecht, on the Egyptian god Harpocrates (Horus the child), with an added letter by Stephanus Le Moyne on the Melanophori. Its engraved plates show ancient Egyptian and classical figures, amulets and coins for scholars of antiquity. Designers can draw on the stiff, symmetrical poses and the ring-and-medallion framing of the figures, with their dense cross-hatched line and small inscribed lettering.
