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Statuette of Isis and Horus
664–30 BCE OR 664–330 BCE
(715–332 BCE)
Overall: 22.9 x 5.5 cm (9 x 2 3/16 in.)
Location: 107 Egyptian
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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.
- -1993Harley C. Lee and Elizabeth K. Lee, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art1993-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- “1993 Annual Report.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218. Mentioned: p. 158 www.jstor.orgBerman, 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. 430Pinch, Geraldine. Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Reproduced: P. 70, fig. 13Cole, Herbert M. Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa.
Brussels : Mercatorfonds, 2017 Reproduced: p. 40, fig. 29; mentioned: p. 41Cleveland Museum of Art. Motherhood across Time. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 3 - {{cite web|title=Statuette of Isis and Horus|url=false|author=|year=664–30 BCE OR 664–330 BCE|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1993.110