Mould for Amulet of Isis Suckling Horus (Primary Title)
Mould for Amulet of Isis with Infant Horus (Alternate Title)

Unknown (Artist)

Educational
1567– 1085 BC
Egyptian
terracotta
Egypt
Overall: 2 5/8 × 1 1/2 × 1 in. (6.67 × 3.81 × 2.54 cm)
80.80.1-2
The Egyptians used molds to make terracotta and faience figures as early as the end of the third millennium B.C. The figure here is a modern cast from this ancient mold.
Dynasties 18-20
New Kingsom Period
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
“Life and Afterlife: Cycles of Nature and Belief in Ancient Egypt,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA); Penninsula Fine Arts Center (Newport News, VA): 12 June-9 August 1999; William King Museum of Art (Abingdon, VA): 27 August-10 October 1999; Piedmont Arts Association (Martinsville, VA): 15 October-28 November 1999; Emerson Gallery (McLean, VA): 3 December 1999-15 January 2000; Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (Farmville, VA): 22 January-5 March 2000.
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