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

Figure of Isis nursing Horus

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Description

Faience

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 small statuette depicting a seated figure holding a child.

The artifact is a small, likely faience statuette featuring a seated figure reminiscent of Isis with Horus. The figure is detailed, with the adult wearing a headdress and holding a child in their lap. The style is indicative of typical Egyptian artistic production, capturing both realism and symbolic elements.

religious unknown good
Deities IsisHorus
Materials faience

Connections

Deities HorusIsis
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116389608 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 2021.41.31 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 329796 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.