| Object Number |
E12548 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Provenience |
Egypt |
| Period |
Late Period |
| Date Made |
664-332 BCE |
| Section |
Egyptian |
| Materials |
Bronze |
| Iconography |
Isis | Horus |
| Description |
Bronze statuette of Isis nursing the infant Horus. Isis wears a long, tight-fitting dress and a vulture headdress with uraeus, horns and sun disk. |
| Height |
40.8 cm |
| Width |
11.5 cm |
| Depth |
15.5 cm |
| Credit Line |
Gift of Mrs. Dillwyn Parrish, 1914 |
| Other Number |
3 - Collector Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Rose, Charlotte B. "Childbirth Magic." Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 58, no. 3. (2016): 38-45. Page/Fig./Plate: 42,43 |
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| Capel, Anne K., and Glen Markoe. Mistress of the House Mistress of the Heaven Women in Ancient Egypt. Hudson Hills Press, New York in association with Cincinnatti Art Museum, 1996. Page/Fig./Plate: 126-27/59a |
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| The Artifacts of Ancient Egypt. National Museum of History, Republic of China, 1985. Page/Fig./Plate: 68 |
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| Silverman, David P., Josef W. Wegner, and Jennifer H. Wegner. Akhenaten and Tutankhamun Revolution and Restoration. Philadelphia: 2006. Page/Fig./Plate: 36-37, fig.30 |
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