Statuette of Isis and Horus

Unknown

400–200 BC · Blue faience · Egyptian Art

The child Horus is missing, but the smiling figure of his mother Isis is preserved. On her head she wears the customary hieroglyph for her name over a vulture cap and an echolonned wig. Her nurturing breasts are round and prominent as is characteristic of the Ptolemaic Period. The feather pattern on her throne is supplemented by a small sema-tawy, unification symbol, inidicative of royalty.

Artist

Unknown

Date

400–200 BC

Medium

Blue faience

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926