The Emblem Shelf
Amida as Harpocrates
A lotus throne, seen from Rome.
- Work
- from Oedipus Aegyptiacus
- Maker
- Athanasius Kircher
- Date
- 1652–1654
- Source
- Published Rome, 1652–1654 · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
A crowned figure sits in a vast open lotus, rays round the head, a stem of lotus pods beneath. The heading names Amida, god of the Japanese, and Athanasius Kircher drew him alongside the Egyptian child-god Harpocrates, who was also shown seated on a lotus. To Kircher the likeness proved a common source. The plate comes from Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 1652–1654, and shows how a European scholar fitted a Buddhist image into an Egyptian story.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Amida as Harpocrates printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate — from Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652), held by Published Rome, 1652–1654 · scan: Wikimedia Commons. The work was published before 1931 and is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper; framed pieces sit behind acrylic, no mat.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans available, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the emblem line, the letterpress bite, the registration of colour — on stock made to outlive its owner.
