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Statuette of Isis Nursing Infant Horus (Harpokrates)

Made By Egyptian, anonymous
Made By Roman
Made By Greek
CultureEgyptian, Roman, Greek
DateLate Ptolemaic-Early Roman Period (100 BC - 200 AD), Ptolemaic - Antonine Dynasty
PeriodLate Ptolemaic-Early Roman
Mediumbronze
DimensionsOverall: 5 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (14.6 x 3.1 cm)
Classification(s)
  • ANCIENT
Credit LineGift of Horace Mayer
Terms
  • Isis
  • Horus
  • goddess
  • gods
  • Harpokrates
  • votive
  • Religion
Object number59.21.18
DescriptionThe hollow cast, votice 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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