The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the RenaissanceThe Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

Figurine of Isis-Aphrodite

Figurine of Isis-Aphrodite

Figurine of Isis-Aphrodite Clay 1st–3rd c. AD Fayum, Egypt Gift of Peter Ruthven, 1935. KM 6532

The syncretism between the Egyptian and Greek traditions is illustrated in this clay figurine of Isis-Aphrodite, the goddess of fertility and motherhood. She is depicted wearing a fruit basket on top of a stippled wreath with a central glyph.