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Statuette of Isis and Infant Horus in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, June 2018

Statuette of Isis and Infant Horus in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, June 2018
Isis and Horus (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

Date: 712-332 BC

Culture: Egyptian

Category: Sculpture

Medium: copper alloy with gold inlay

Collection: Ancient Art

Geography: Egypt

Dimensions: 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)

Object Number: 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.

Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-110394000

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