Golden Mummies : Statue

Golden Mummies

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Marble head from a statue of the goddess Isis, shown in Greek artistic style with a veil covering the back of her head and her hair arranged in long corkscrew curls. Her Egyptian identity is indicated by the stylised solar disk and cow’s horns above her head.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Mounted on a round marble plinth, of much later (Roman or modern 18th century?) date.</p>

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