Isis with the child Horus

Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker

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Late Third Intermediate Period (800-650 BCE)

Faience

Overall: 5 7/8 in. (15 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Christine Lilyquist in honor of Donald Hansen and Natacha Rambova

2011.54

Geography

Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa

Period

1000 BCE-1 CE

Object Name

Figure

Research Area

Ancient Egypt

Africa

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed on back, in hieroglyph, incised: sma-tawy (“unification of Egypt”)

Course History

ANTH 57, Origins of Inequality, Alan Covey, Winter 2013

REL 51, Virgin of Guadalupe, Elizabeth Perez, Winter 2013

REL 7, Dark Goddesses and Black Madonnas, Elizabeth Perez, Winter 2013

ANTH 57, Origins of Inequality, Alan Covey, Winter 2013

Exhibition History

Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.

Objects and Power: Manifestations of Inequality, a student curated exhibition, Professor Alan Covey, ANTH 57, Winter 2013, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 10-August 25, 2013.

Provenance

Natacha Rambova (1897-1966); given to Donald P. Hansen (1932-2007); given to Christine Lilyquist, New York, New York; given to present collection, 2011.

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