Statuette of Isis
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
MEDIUM
Bronze
DATES
305–30 B.C.E.
DYNASTY
Dynasty 26, or later
PERIOD
Ptolemaic Period
DIMENSIONS
3 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 7/8 in. (9.6 × 4.5 × 2.3 cm)
(show scale)
ACCESSION NUMBER
37.567E
CREDIT LINE
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Solid cast bronze figure of Isis. The goddess is shown standing, wearing a lappet wig with uraeus and crowned with cow’s horns and solar disk. She holds her winged arms forwards and outwards to protect some now missing figure with which she once formed a group.
Condition: Surface covered by a brown/black patina. Ends of both wings missing: also missing are the tips of the cow’s horns. Feet brown off at ankles. Surface roughly worked.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Statuette of Isis, 305–30 B.C.E. Bronze, 3 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 7/8 in. (9.6 × 4.5 × 2.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.567E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 37.567E_NegD_SL4.jpg)
IMAGE
front, unedited master file, 37.567E_NegD_SL4.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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