Isis Nursing the Child Horus

330-304 BCE (Ptolemaic)

2.6 cm 6.3 cm 1.3 cm

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A fragment from a statuette that once showed Isis nursing her divine son, Horus, portrays the goddess in a blue glaze, her hair set off in a deeper hue. The emblem on her head is the hieroglyphic sign for throne. This statuette was probably from the reign of Ptolemy I Soter.

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