A bronze statuette of the goddess Isis, wife of Osiris, sitting on a throne, while nursing her son Horus. She is depicted with a solar disk over an uraeus crown. Her son wears a plait, symbol of infancy. This deity, one of the most popular among the Egyptian pantheon, was regarded as the mother goddess par excellence, and a model wife. She was worshipped all over Egypt.
VV.AA, De Gabinete a Museo. Tres siglos de historia. Madrid, 1993. Exposición, P. 240 Nº 35.
RADA Y DELGADO, J. de D. de la, Estatuas de divinidades egipcias ( bronce ) que se conservan en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Museo Español de Antigüedades, II, 1872, Lám. 3.
PEREZ DIE, M.C. La Tumba de Tutmosis III. Las horas oscuras del sol. Catálogo de la Exposición, Madrid 2004, p. 102
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