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Bronze statuette of the goddess Isis nursing Horus

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A sitting bronze statuette of the goddess Isis nursing her son Horus sitting on her knees. The goddess wears a crown composed of bovine horns and the solar disk, and a uraeus rendered in relief on her forehead. The child Horus wears the tress, a symbol of childhood, on the right side of his head, and also wears the uraeus on his forehead. The feet of the goddess rest on a hollow trapezoidal base with a tenon at the center.

Present location

MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE

Inventory number

319

Dating

LATE PERIOD

Archaeological Site

UNSPECIFIED

Category

FIGURINE/STATUETTE

Material

BRONZE

Technique

FULL CAST

Height

36.9 cm

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