Detail of the Statuette of Isis and Infant Horus in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, June 2018

Isis and Horus (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

Date: 712-332 BC

Culture: Egyptian

Category: Sculpture

Medium: copper alloy with gold inlay

Collection: Ancient Art

Geography: Egypt

Dimensions: Overall (without base): 10 × 2 1/2 × 4 in. (25.4 × 6.35 × 10.16 cm)

Other (wooden base ): 2 1/2 × 2 7/8 × 6 1/4 in. (6.35 × 7.303 × 15.875 cm)

Object Number: 55.32.1


Egyptian artists often showed Isis nursing her child. Her headdress, ornamented with the cow horns and solar disk of the mother-goddess Hathor, emphasizes Isis’s role as mother.

Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-110394000