Isis Holding a Cobra

late 1st century BCE-2nd century CE (Roman)

8 cm 34.4 cm 10.6 cm

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This attire of the Egyptian goddess Isis features the characteristic "Isis knot" between the breasts. The sheaves of grain flanking her crown are not an Egyptian attribute but associate Isis with Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture. Isis had an enormous following during...

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Giovanni Dattari, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Giovanni Dattari Sale, Paris, 1912, no. 413, p. 48, pl. XLVII; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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