Isis with Child Horus

Description Conservation Provenance Credit

Description This calcite-alabaster, travertine statue depicts Isis with the child Horus. Isis has a uraeus on her forehead and a long wig and the original crown is missing. She wears a collar. Her upper left arm is broken off.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
5/28/1962	Treatment	cleaned

Provenance Carmichael [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Carmichael Catalogue, 1926, p. 22, no. 231] (?); Joseph Brummer, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1927

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Creator

Egyptian (Artist)

Period

11th century-9th century BC (Late New Kingdom-early Third Intermediate Period)

Medium

calcite-alabaster, travertine
(Sculpture)

Accession Number

22.137

Measurements

H: 2 9/16 x W: 11/16 x D: 1 5/8 in. (6.48 x 1.72 x 4.1 cm)

Geographies

Egypt (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View