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<em>Isis Holding Horus</em>, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.430_threequarter_right_PS2.jpg)
Isis Holding Horus, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.430_threequarter_right_PS2.jpg)
<em>Isis Holding Horus</em>, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.430_threequarter_right_PS2.jpg)

Isis Holding Horus, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.430_threequarter_right_PS2.jpg)

<em>Isis Holding Horus</em>, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.430_front.jpg)

Isis Holding Horus, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.430_front.jpg)

<em>Isis Holding Horus</em>, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.430_threequarter_right.jpg)

Isis Holding Horus, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.430_threequarter_right.jpg)

<em>Isis Holding Horus</em>, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.430_left.jpg)

Isis Holding Horus, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.430_left.jpg)

<em>Isis Holding Horus</em>, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.430_right_profile.jpg)

Isis Holding Horus, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.430_right_profile.jpg)

<em>Isis Holding Horus</em>, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.430_back.jpg)

Isis Holding Horus, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.430_back.jpg)

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Isis Holding Horus

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

MEDIUM Stone
DATES 664–404 B.C.E.
DYNASTY Dynasty 26 to Dynasty 27
PERIOD Late Period, Saite Period (possibly)
DIMENSIONS 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm)  (show scale)
INSCRIPTIONS Single column of inscription on back pillar continues down back of seat.
COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 16.430
CREDIT LINE Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Dark green stone statuette of Isis, seated nursing the child Horus. Vulture headdress, right hand holds left breast. Plinth bears column of incised hieroglyphs. Dedicated by p3-nhsy (?) son of nit-ikr. Condition: Top of headdress and plinth missing. Headdress may have been made separately judging by socket on top of head. Face of Horus damaged.
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Isis Holding Horus, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.430_threequarter_right_PS2.jpg)
IMAGE 16.430_threequarter_right_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006
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<em>Isis Holding Horus</em>, 664–404 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13 × 3.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.430. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.430_threequarter_right_PS2.jpg)

TAGS

Goddess
Female
Isis
Deity
God
Male
Horus
Child Horus
Isis and Horus
Statuette
Seated
Stone
Saite Period (possibly)
Dynasty 26 or later
Vulture Headdress
Dark Green
Nursing

TAGS

Goddess
Female
Isis
Deity
God
Male
Horus
Child Horus
Isis and Horus
Statuette
Seated
Stone
Saite Period (possibly)
Dynasty 26 or later
Vulture Headdress
Dark Green
Nursing

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