Art Institute of Chicago
Ring Depicting Isis and Horus
Egyptian
- Date
- Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)
- Medium
- Gold
- Culture
- Egypt
- Department
- Arts of Africa
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
One side of this ring bears the title of a priest of Thoeris named Horemakhbit. The other side shows Isis wearing her tall horned headdress and seated on a throne nursing Horus, surrounded by flowers that represent the papyrus marsh in which she sheltered her son. The name Horemakhbit means “Horus in the Marsh”; therefore the image of Isis and Horus is a visual pun of the priest’s name.
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- Object type
- AAT300209261
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