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Fragment of terracotta figurine of Isis-Hathor
Greek, Ptolemaic
Hellenistic Period
3rd–2nd century B.C.
Findspot: Egypt, Naukratis
Medium/Technique
Terracotta
Credit Line
Egypt Exploration Fund by subscription
Accession Number86.390
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionFragment of terracotta figurine, or applique, of Isis-Hathor. Her hair is parted in the middle and Isis-locks fall onto her shoulders; she wears an enormous tripple wreath bound across the front with a narrow horizontal garland. From the top of the wreath would have risen a kalathos, now lost. Covered in thick white coating, with red paint on lips, eyes and eye-brows painted black. The tripple wreath encircles her face with pink, yellow and red bands crossed by horizontal blue band. Brown, muddy clay. Mould-made and hollow. Red-brown micacous Nile silt. The face is broken just below chin, the left side and back are also missing.
ProvenanceFrom Naukratis. 1885: excavated by William Matthew Flinders Petrie for the Egypt Exploration Fund, assigned to the EEF by the Egyptian government; October 28, 1885: voted to the MFA at EEF general meeting; sent over February 1886. (Accession date: 1886).