Statuette of Isis and Horus

Late Period–Ptolemaic Period

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 134

The child Horus is missing, but the smiling figure of his mother Isis is preserved. On her head she wears the customary hieroglyph for her name over a vulture cap and an echolonned wig. Her nurturing breasts are round and prominent as is characteristic of the Ptolemaic Period. The feather pattern on her throne is supplemented by a small sema-tawy, unification symbol, inidicative of royalty.

Statuette of Isis and Horus, Blue faience

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Statuette of Isis and Horus, Blue faience
Statuette of Isis and Horus, Blue faience
Statuette of Isis and Horus, Blue faience
Statuette of Isis and Horus, Blue faience
Statuette of Isis and Horus, Blue faience

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