Isis Nursing the Child Horus

Description A fragment from a statuette that once showed Isis nursing her divine son, Horus, portrays the goddess in a blue glaze, her hair set off in a deeper hue. The emblem on her head is the hieroglyphic sign for throne. This statuette was probably from the reign of Ptolemy I Soter.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/23/1959	Treatment	cleaned
7/20/1998	Examination	examined for condition
10/26/2000	Treatment	cleaned
8/21/2011	Treatment	cleaned

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

Inscriptions [Translation] throne

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters