Bronze statuette of Isis with the boy Horus. Late period, 664 - 332 B.C. H 13cm. Fully cast. Group of figures of the seated Isis with the boy Horus on her lap. The goddess wears a three-part wig and the headdress of Hathor with cow horns and sun disk, clutching her left breast with her right hand. Under her feet is a rectangular plinth. The depiction of Isis as a nursing mother ('Isis Lactans') was particularly widespread in the late period. Corroded surface. Provenance: ex Gorny & Mosch, auction 300, 12.12.2023, lot 359; ex Collin du Bocage Paris, auction 11.06.2014, lot 22.

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