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Statuette of Isis-Aphrodite in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
Figure of Isis-Aphrodite
Period:Roman Period
Date:2nd century A.D.
Geography:From Egypt
Medium:Terracotta painted brown, black, red, and pink on white engobe
Dimensions:h. 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in); w. 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in)
Credit Line:Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1991
Accession Number:1991.76
Isis-Aphrodite is a form of the great goddess Isis that emphasizes the fertility aspects associated with Aphrodite. She was concerned with marriage and childbirth and, following very ancient pharaonic prototypes, also with rebirth. Elaborate accessories, including an exaggerated calathos (the crown of Egyptian Greco-Roman divinities) emblazoned with a tiny disk and horns of Isis, heighten the effect of her nudity.
Figures depicting this goddess are found in both domestic and funerary contexts. Popular already in the 3rd to 2nd centuries B.C., they continued to be made in Roman times. Dating technology places this piece in the Roman period, probably about AD 150, and the long narrow face and rather dry expression do not contradict such a date.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544919
Period:Roman Period
Date:2nd century A.D.
Geography:From Egypt
Medium:Terracotta painted brown, black, red, and pink on white engobe
Dimensions:h. 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in); w. 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in)
Credit Line:Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1991
Accession Number:1991.76
Isis-Aphrodite is a form of the great goddess Isis that emphasizes the fertility aspects associated with Aphrodite. She was concerned with marriage and childbirth and, following very ancient pharaonic prototypes, also with rebirth. Elaborate accessories, including an exaggerated calathos (the crown of Egyptian Greco-Roman divinities) emblazoned with a tiny disk and horns of Isis, heighten the effect of her nudity.
Figures depicting this goddess are found in both domestic and funerary contexts. Popular already in the 3rd to 2nd centuries B.C., they continued to be made in Roman times. Dating technology places this piece in the Roman period, probably about AD 150, and the long narrow face and rather dry expression do not contradict such a date.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544919
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