Faience statuette of nursing Isis
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Object number
AR2893B
| Object: |
Fayence statuette of nursing Isis
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| Material: |
Fayence.
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| Period: |
Late Period of Ancient Egypt, 26th to 30th dynasty, c. 664 BC to 332 BC. |
| Description: |
Fayence statuette of Isis with Horus child. The goddess is seated on a throne. She holds her breast for her son Horus and supports his head with her other hand. The child is sitting on her lap. Isis is wearing a tripartite wig, the Uraeus snake is decorating her forehead. Above was probably once a horned sun disc as a headdress (now missing). A column of hieroglyphs is at the rear pillar reading "Iset [...] anch".
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| Background: |
The goddess Isis had many roles in Ancient Egypt. Nursing her child is obviously a depiction of her role as a mother. This popular motive of Egyptian art is also the archetype of the later Christian Nursing Madonna or Madonna lactans.
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| Dimensions: |
51mm high without wooden base.
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| Condition: |
Good condition. Headdress is missing and some chips at the right rear side of the throne. Otherwise well preserved. Comes with a separate modern wooden base to which the statuette was once glued.
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| Provenance: |
Acquired by us in 2020 from the German private collection D. R. Acquired into the collection in 2017 from T. Brockweber. Previously in Gorny & Mosch Germany auction 243, December 2016, lot no. 513. Previously in private possession of A. Bade, Germany. Acquired at Guenther Puhze gallery (with copy of the certificate). Previously in a Northern German private collection. Acquired into the collection in 1985 on the German art market.
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| References: |
Cf. C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, p. 22, no. 18 c). Cf. Petrie, Amulets, plate XXVI, no. 146c. |
| Literature: |
H. Altenmüller: Zum Ursprung von Isis und Nephthys. Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur 27 (1999). Maria Münster: Untersuchungen zur Göttin Isis vom Alten Reich bis zum Ende des Neuen Reiches. Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 11. Berlin (1968). |
| Authenticity: |
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