Image: Isis suckling her baby Horus from Mata´na el-Asfun 09

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Description: object type: statue of a deity - description: the goddess Isis sitting on a block, suckling her baby Horus / Harpokrates (of whom only the left leg is preserved) - production place: Egypt - period / date: Roman period, ca. 1st century AD - material: siltstone (basis: limestone) - height: 33,9 cm - findspot: Mata´na el-Asfun - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, ÄS 4201 - bibliography: Sylvia Schoske, Dietrich Wildung, Das Münchner Buch der Ägyptischen Kunst, München 2013, 164-168, fig. 137

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