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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
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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