TERRACOTTA STATUETTE OF AN ISIS-APHRODITE
Terracotta figurine representing Isis-Aphrodite, a goddess combining attributes of the Egyptian goddesses Isis and Hathor, and the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Although otherwise nude, she wears elaborate accessories, including an exaggerated calathos or modius - the crown of Egyptian Greco-Roman deities. Her long corkscrew curls are arranged in the semblance of a traditional Egyptian hairstyle.
Similarly garbed figures of goddesses and female figures associated with marriage, conception, and childbirth are found throughout the Greco-Roman world. The Egyptian version is distinguished by its compressed, frontal, and rather rigidly upright pose, and by its occurrence in burials.
Source: Terracotta Figure of Isis-Aphrodite [Egyptian] (1991.76), Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Egypt, Roman period.
Comes with a TL test.
Height : 12.2 inches (31,5 cm)
Condition: Very good condition.
Professionally restored from large fragments, no parts missing.
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