Isis
Isis Aphrodite
2nd Century AD
Terracotta,white engobe,paint
Isis-Aphrodite is a form of the great goddess of Isis that emphasizes the fertility aspects associated with Aphrodite.She was concerned with marriage and childbirth and,following very ancient pharaonic prototypes,also with childbirth.Elaborate accessories,including an exaggerated Cajaflez calathos (the crown of Egyptian Greco-Roman divinities) emblazoned with a tiny disk and horns of Isis,heightened the effect of her nudity.
Figures depicting this goddess are found on both domestic and funerary contexts.Popular already to the third and second century B.C.,they continued to be made on Roman times.Dating technologies places this piece in the Roman Period,probably around AD 150,and the long narrow face and rather dry expression do not contradict such a date.
Isis
Isis Aphrodite
2nd Century AD
Terracotta,white engobe,paint
Isis-Aphrodite is a form of the great goddess of Isis that emphasizes the fertility aspects associated with Aphrodite.She was concerned with marriage and childbirth and,following very ancient pharaonic prototypes,also with childbirth.Elaborate accessories,including an exaggerated Cajaflez calathos (the crown of Egyptian Greco-Roman divinities) emblazoned with a tiny disk and horns of Isis,heightened the effect of her nudity.
Figures depicting this goddess are found on both domestic and funerary contexts.Popular already to the third and second century B.C.,they continued to be made on Roman times.Dating technologies places this piece in the Roman Period,probably around AD 150,and the long narrow face and rather dry expression do not contradict such a date.