Statuette of Isis and Horus
Description
Late Period, Dynasty 26–30, 664–332 B.C. Copper alloy. h. 14.8 cm (5 13/16 in). From: Egypt. Subject: Horus, Isis, Nursing. Credit: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904.
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 Egyptian bronze/copper-alloy statuette shows a standing female figure with a child-like figure seated above/at her head-height, consistent with an Isis-and-Horus type grouping.
The object is a standing statuette of a human-like goddess wearing a headdress/crown that forms a cradle-like shape above her head. A smaller figure (interpreted as Horus/child) is seated within or immediately atop that headdress, creating a combined mother-and-child silhouette. The lower body is fully modeled in standing pose, with one arm bent across the torso and the other arm drawn inward; the hands are held close to the chest/waist area. The surface is worn with visible casting/grinding texture and a dark patina, suggesting a metal statuette. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or inscriptions are visible in this image. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present.
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- 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.
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