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Statuette of Seated Isis with Infant Harpokrates

Date

1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.

Medium

Steatite

Culture

Roman

Department

Sculpture

Institution

Getty Museum

Headless statuette of Isis Lactans (Isis Suckling). The deity is seated on a chair with a high back, her son Harpokrates on her lap, of whom remains only the left leg and right hand resting on his mother's leg. With her missing proper left arm the goddess would have been holding Harpokrates; the right hand supports the left breast, in the characteristic gesture of breastfeeding. She wears an himation over a chiton with open short sleeves, typical of Roman fashion. Her sandaled left foot rests on a small footstool. She is recognizable as Isis for the remains of curly hair on her back and right shoulder, as well as for the so-called "Isis knot" between her breasts, and the fringed cloak. An image of the god Horus is carved on the back of the chair in the shape of a falcon wearing the Egyptian double-crown.

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