A Romano-Egyptian bronze Isis Lactans
A Romano-Egyptian bronze Isis Lactans
Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.
The goddess depicted seated on a throne with stepped base, once nursing Horus, now missing, her right hand held to her left breast, her left cradling the head of the child, wearing a long pleated chiton and enveloped in a characteristic fringed mantle, bound in an 'Isis' knot between the breasts, a headdress of a solar disc between cow's horns and surmounted by plumes atop her wavy hair, styled in corkscrew 'Libyan' curls falling onto her back, 12cm high
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A Romano-Egyptian bronze Isis Lactans
Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.
The goddess depicted seated on a throne with stepped base, once nursing Horus, now missing, her right hand held to her left breast, her left cradling the head of the child, wearing a long pleated chiton and enveloped in a characteristic fringed mantle, bound in an 'Isis' knot between the breasts, a headdress of a solar disc between cow's horns and surmounted by plumes atop her wavy hair, styled in corkscrew 'Libyan' curls falling onto her back, 12cm high
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