Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A work made of gold.

Ring Depicting Isis and Horus

Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Egyptian

Egypt

One side of this ring bears the title of a priest of Thoeris named Horemakhbit. The other side shows Isis wearing her tall horned headdress and seated on a throne nursing Horus, surrounded by flowers that represent the papyrus marsh in which she sheltered her son. The name Horemakhbit means “Horus in the Marsh”; therefore the image of Isis and Horus is a visual pun of the priest’s name.

Gold

Arts of Africa