Amulet of Isis and Horus
- Accession Number
- EC870
- Current Location
- House of Death (ground floor), Amulets case
- Object Type
- Sculpture, Statue
- Periods
- Late Period to Graeco-Roman Period
- Material
- Faience
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Measurements
- Height: 34mm | Width: 13mm | Depth: 14mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Divine Name
- Horus | Isis
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Licensing details
This image may be used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. For uses not covered under the Creative Commons license, or to license images for commercial uses,
please contact the Egypt Centre.
- Description
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An amulet of the goddess Isis. It is made of faience, with Hathor nursing Horus. The bottom of her legs/feet are missing. Such amulets are particularly popular from about 700 BCE onwards.
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 02 Nov 2020
