Isis and Horus (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

712–332 BC
Egyptian
copper alloy with gold inlay
Place Made,Egypt
Overall (without base): 10 × 2 1/2 × 4 in. (25.4 × 6.35 × 10.16 cm)
Other (wooden base ): 2 1/2 × 2 7/8 × 6 1/4 in. (6.35 × 7.303 × 15.875 cm)
55.32.1
Egyptian artists often showed Isis nursing her child. Her headdress, ornamented with the cow horns and solar disk of the mother-goddess Hathor, emphasizes Isis’s role as mother.
Dynasties 26-30
Late Period
Purchased with funds provided by the Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation
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