Uto Nursing the Child Horus

mid 8th-mid 4th century BCE (Late Period) Overall: 7 1/2 in. (19 cm) Citation

The lion-headed goddess Uto would have held the child Horus in her lap, as 54.2076, and likely would have had a sun-disc on her head, though both are missing. She is seated on a low-backed throne with a Horus-falcon depicted on the back as well as papyrus plants on the sides a...

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17012
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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