EGYPT, STEATITE AMULET OF ISIS HATHOR SUCKLING HORUS
EGYPT, STEATITE AMULET OF ISIS HATHOR SUCKLING HORUS
Isis wearing cow’s horns and disc on her head, suckling infant Horus, propped up by her left hand, seated on plain throne.
Ex priv. coll. J. V., Netherlands.
H. 4,7 cm. Intact, pierced for wearing.
Late Period, 6th – 4th cent. BC
Cf. C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London 1994, p. 22 no. 18b
€ 2.750