Figure of Isis-Serget as Scorpion

Description Conservation Provenance Inscription Credit

Description The top of a scepter in the form of a papyrus column, surmounted by a pedestal supporting the figure of a scorpion with the bust of a woman, representing the goddess Isis-Serget. Originally she wore a crown of cow horns and sun-disk. The inscription on the shaft is badly damaged. The phrase: "Isis may give life" has been preserved.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
9/17/1959	Treatment	cleaned
12/01/1975	Treatment	cleaned; stabilized; other

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Translation] Isis may give life

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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Creator

Egyptian (Artist)

Period

ca. 663-346 BCE (Late Period)

Medium

bronze
(Metal)

Accession Number

54.546

Measurements

5 x 3 3/8 in. (12.7 x 8.5 cm)

Geographies

Egypt (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Centre Street: Second Floor: Egyptian Art