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

One of the interpretations of this bronze figurine is that it represents a cure against the anxieties of childbirth; it also offers protection to the newborn. The figurine displays the main features and attributes of the goddess. Isis is the Egyptian goddess of fertility and motherhood, although her special attributes are largely copied from Hathor, also an Egyptian goddess of motherhood: the horns of a cow on her head with the solar disk between them. Expectedly, Isis is conspicuously present in uterine amulets, designed to facilitate childbirth.