44 – Isis and Horus

Isis with the Infant Horus. Roman, 131-138 CE; found in Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, Italy. The goddess Isis, wearing a solar disk and cow horns, offers her breast to the infant Horus. The sculpture is carved from Egyptian granite in a traditional, rigidly frontal style that dates back to eighth century BCE.

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