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LOT 0508
Egyptian Silver Isis and Horus Amulet
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
1 1/2 in. (2 1/2 in.) (6.2 grams, 39 mm (20.7 grams total, 62 mm including stand)).
Isis enthroned wearing a cow's horn headdress with a solar disc, suckling the infant Horus on her lap; loop to rear of crown; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Mythes & Legend.
Ex Cohen collection 2011.
Property of a French collector.
Literature
Cf. Andrews, C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, item 18(a).
Footnotes
In ancient Egyptian mythology, Isis was the sister-wife of Osiris and the mother of the sky god Horus. She is associated with aspects of fertility and motherhood and is often depicted in various artworks seated in a nursing pose with her son Horus on her lap, as here.
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