Gilded sculpture "Protective goddess Isis", museum replica of art casting and wood

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Sculpture "Protective goddess Isis" (original size), gilded

"I am everything that was, what is and what will be ...", an inscription on one of her countless still images indicates the "magic rich" and "goddess with the 10,000 names". The Egyptians were primarily mother, women and birth goddess. She was considered a mother of the gods and goddess of the Governing Pharaoh.

This figure was one of the four goddesses of protective, guarding the shrine with the intestines of the mummified Tutankhamun. The goddesses should protect the pharaoh in the hereafter and ward off the dangers of him. The shrine with the goddesses was discovered in a room right next to the coffin chamber. Egypt, 18th Dynasty, around 1335 BC Chr.

Original: Egyptian museum