1st century A.D.
Bronze
The Morse Foundation
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- Isis (EYE-sus) figures prominently in Egyptian mythology as a healer, a magician, and an exemplary wife and mother.
- During the age of the Roman Empire, the cult of Isis gained immense popularity not only in Egypt but also throughout
the Mediterranean world.
- While the subject and pose of this statuette of Isis are Egyptian, the
NATURALISTIC
treatment of its form is characteristically Roman.
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