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About this object

Narrative

Collected by H. V. S. Page. Label attached to the original stand said: "Blanchard's Egyptian Museum Cairo - Egypt Bronze Isis & Horus" "Period XXVI-XXX Dynasty, 600-300 years BC, Lower Egypt ... Guaranteed Genuine R.H. Blanchard"

Physical description

Figure depicting the seated goddess Isis lactans nursing her son, Horus. Isis wears the Hathor headdress comprised of the solar disk and Hathoric cow horns. Her feet rest on a roughly square platform with a protruding segment extending down from the bottom back of the platform.