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Statuette of Isis and Horus

Statuette of Isis and Horus

664–30 BCE OR 664–330 BCE
Location: 107 Egyptian

Did You Know?

Originally, the goddess would have been provided with a wooden throne.

Description

This statuette of Isis and Horus is a better than average example of an extremely common type. Isis offers her breast to her son Horus, who is seated on her lap. With her left hand she cradles the young god, while with her right she clasps her left breast. She wears a striated divine wig, vulture headdress, and uraeus, the details of which are finely incised. Above her are the modius, cow's horns, and a sun disk.
Horus sits at a right angle to his mother, his arms at his side. He wears the sidelock of youth and a uraeus. He is nude except for a broad collar and a chain from which is suspended a heart amulet.
  • -1993
    Harley C. Lee and Elizabeth K. Lee, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1993-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 430
    Pinch, Geraldine. Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Reproduced: P. 70, fig. 13
    Cole, Herbert M. Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa.
    Brussels : Mercatorfonds, 2017 Reproduced: p. 40, fig. 29; mentioned: p. 41
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1993.110