STATUETTE OF THE GODDESS ISIS WITH THE INFANT HORUS Egypt, Late Period, 26th–30th Dynasty, 664–343 BC.

STATUETTE OF THE GODDESS ISIS WITH THE INFANT HORUS

Egypt, Late Period, 26th–30th Dynasty, 664–343 BC.
Solid-cast bronze, partly engraved, the eyes inlaid with silver. The goddess wearing a close-fitting dress reaching to the ankles. Her face framed by a wig with uraeus diadem. Originally with a crown of cow horns and solar disk, only the base of which survives in fragmentary form. The infant Horus seated on her lap. On an old wooden base dating from the 1950s/60s, inscribed in pencil underneath "eK. 371".
H 16 cm. H with base 21 cm.
Green patina. The infant probably originally with an uraeus diadem. Feet of the infant Horus and diadem of Isis incomplete.

Provenance:
- Galerie Fischer auction, Estate of Dr. F. Burgers: Collection and Inventory from Château Malagny on Lake Geneva, Lucerne, 25/26 August 1932, Lot 330.
- Swiss private collection, acquired at the above auction.
- Swiss private collection, inherited from the above in 1957.
- Swiss private collection, inherited from the above in 1967.