EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS LACTANS FIGURINE

Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1069 - 664 BC. A cast bronze figurine depicting the goddess Isis seated, nursing the infant Horus on her lap. She wears a tripartite wig surmounted by a solar disc between cow horns. Her right hand is raised to her left breast, and her left arm supports the child, whose head is turned towards her. The goddess wears a close-fitting dress extending to the ankles, with her feet resting on a rectangular base. A tenon projects beneath the seat for attachment. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 17.190.1641. Size: 165mm x 50mm; Weight: 295g Provenance: From a private UK collection; formerly in the S.S. collection, assembled from the 1970s onwards.

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