Object Description
An ancient Egyptian amulet, made of turquoise faience, depicting the Egyptian goddess Isis nursing her infant son Horus on her lap. She is seated on a throne, and nestles the infant god in the crook of her left arm, whilst her right is drawn up towards her breast. The goddess wears the Hathoric crown, a sun-disc and cow’s horns, upon her head. A dorsal pillar stretches up the back of the amulet and there is a small hole pierced horizontally through the back of the goddess for suspension.
Date: Circa 664-332 BC
Period: Late Period