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Statuette of Isis Nursing Infant Horus (Harpokrates)

Made By Egyptian, anonymous
CultureEgyptian
DateLate Period (664 BC-310 BC), Dynasties 26-30
PeriodLate Period
Mediumbronze
DimensionsOverall: 5 13/16 x 1 9/16 in. (14.7 x 4 cm)
Classification(s)
  • ANCIENT
Credit LineGift of Horace Mayer
Terms
  • Isis
  • Horus
  • goddess
  • Religion
  • gods
  • votive
Object number60.36.2
DescriptionThis hollow cast, votive statuette depicts the fertility goddess, Isis, suckling the infant Horus. She wears a shear dress, divine wig and vulture headdress with uraeus; on top of her head are a modius, solar-disk and cow's horns. Statuettes of this type were first produced en masse in the Late Period, and remained popular into Ptolemaic and Roman times.
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Magnus Bernhardsson, HIST 308, f23
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