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Isis with the child Horus

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Isis is shown enthroned with the child Horus on her lap. She supports his head with her left hand and with her right hand she suckles him. Isis is wearing a close-fitting dress and a long tripartite wig falling onto her breasts and down her back. She wears the uraeus on her forehead and her crown is supported by a calathos shaped as a circle of dressed cobras. The crown is composed of cow's horns with a solar disk. Horus the child (Harpocrates) is represented nude and with the lock of youth which identifies him as a child god. On his forehead is a uraeus whose body curls itself over the top of his head.

Present location

PELIZAEUS-MUSEUM [04/030] HILDESHEIM

Inventory number

1201

Dating

30TH DYNASTY (not after); LATE PERIOD; 26TH DYNASTY (not before)

Archaeological Site

UNKNOWN

Category

FIGURINE/STATUETTE

Material

BRONZE

Technique

FULL CAST

Height

41.3 cm

Width

11 cm

Depth

18 cm

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