AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE GROUP OF ISIS AND HORUS
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI, circa 664-525 B.C.
The goddess depicted sacred, clad in a tightly-fitted sheath and broad collar, wearing a striated tripartite wig fronted by a uraeus and crowned with a cobra-modius supporting cow hornsframing a solar disk, her feet resting on an integral plinth, offering her left breast to her divine son Horus seated on her lap, his arms with the palms open along the sidesof his chubby body, wearing a cap-crown fronted by a uraeus and the side lock of youth. 10 1/2 inches high.
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