Small Statue of the Goddess Isis Nursing the Child Horus
Description
Caption: Small Statue of the Goddess Isis Nursing the Child Horus, 664–525 B.C.E. or 305–30 B.C.E.. Bronze, 37.591Ea: 5 1/16 × 1 9/16 × 2 1/4 in. (12.9 × 4 × 5.8 cm) 37.591Eb: 1 5/8 × 1/2 × 1 11/16 in. (4.1 × 1.3 × 4.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.591Ea-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A bronze statuette depicting a standing figure with a sun disk and horns.
This is a bronze statuette of an ancient Egyptian deity, shown in a classic frontal pose. The figure wears a long, form-fitting dress, with an attribute on the head that includes a sun disk flanked by cow horns, suggesting Hathor or Isis. The craftsmanship highlights the slenderness of the body and a serene expression typical of Egyptian art.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.591Ea-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 117231 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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