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Ring Depicting Isis and Horus

Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)
Gold
2.2 × 2 cm (0.9 × 0.8 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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.

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