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Ceramics
Isis Nursing Horus
Egyptian artist
Egyptian artist
Egypt
Primary
3 7/8 x 2 1/8 x 1 3/8 in. (9.8 x 5.4 x 3.5 cm)
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Terracotta
Terracotta
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Ceramics
Creation myths often begin with the miracle of a birth. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Isis was described as “She who gives birth to heaven and earth.” She was mother to Horus, god of sun, war, and protection, who she conceived with her brother Osiris, god of the underworld. Isis’s breast milk was believed to have magical, curative powers, and she is often depicted nursing Horus in images similar to later depictions of the Virgin with the Infant Jesus.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
1928.416
item
Memorial Art Gallery
2/4/2001
28.416DI#1
digital image
Front
3/8/2011
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28.416DI#2
digital image
Back
3/8/2011
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