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Faience
figurines of Isis, wife and protector of
Osiris. She a goddess with magical powers who protected the dead.
She is shown either sitting on a thrown with her hieroglyphic symbol on her
head or wearing cow horns with a sun disk between them. Many depictions
show her with her son, Horus, seated on her knee (often being suckled). |