An Egyptian turquoise faience triad plaque

An Egyptian turquoise faience triad plaque
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, circa 664–30 B.C.
The rectangular plaque with standing figures of the infant god Horus flanked by Isis and Nephthys, with a suspension loop above, 4.2cm x 3.2cm

Provenance:
Private collection, UK, formed from the 1970s onwards.

Nude Horus is depicted as a child and is shown being protected by, and holding the hands of, his mother Isis and aunt Nephthys. This plaque also represents part of the Osiride myth of the murder and resurrection of Osiris and the birth and vengeance of his son Horus, both of them nurtured and protected by Isis and Nephthys. There is a similar example at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 26.7.890.