Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Isis-Aphrodite clasping a garment rolled about her hips

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Description

Statuette, Isis-Aphrodite. Roman Period, A.D. 1st–2nd century. Bronze. H: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1946.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A small bronze figure depicts a standing/embracing female deity with a stylized headdress and hands positioned to hold or clasp fabric around her hips.

The object is a patinated bronze statuette against a plain red background. The figure appears seated or standing with bent legs, wearing a long, wrapped garment. The head is surmounted by a prominent tall headdress/urn-like element, and the face is rendered with a calm expression. One hand holds or gathers the garment at the hip area, while the other supports or clasps the rolled/flowing fabric, consistent with an iconographic pose of a deity embracing or securing a garment. No clearly readable hieroglyphs or other alphabetic inscriptions are visible. No cartouches or royal names are present. The image does not show Greek/Coptic/Arabic text.

religious Roman Period (per catalogue ground truth) good
Deities IsisAphrodite
Materials bronze

Connections

Deities IsisAphrodite
Materials Bronze

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116389472 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 46.2.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545984 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.