Arnouphis or Harnouphis was an Egyptian who, according to Dio Cassius, saved the Roman legion XII Fulminata during a campaign against the Quadi in about AD 172 by calling up a rainstorm.[1] Dio Cassius calls Arnouphis a magos, originally a term for Zoroastrian priests. David Frankfurter says that Arnouphis was an Egyptian priest, but he was called a magos because Romans regarded priests from many Near Eastern cultures as fitting a single stereotype of exotic magicians.[2]
In popular culture
edit- In the series 20s A Difficult Age created by Marcus Orelias, the main protagonist, Harnuphis is named after Arnouphis.[3]
Citations
edit- ^ "The rain miracle". www.livius.org. Archived from the original on 2002-05-29.
- ^ Frankfurter, David (1998). Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance. Princeton University Press. pp. 236–237.
- ^ "Harnuphis". www.becomix.me. Be Comix. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
Further reading
edit- Kovács, Peter (2008). Marcus Aurelius' Rain Miracle and the Marcomannic Wars. Brill. ISBN 978-90-47-44326-1.
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