Demeter rejoiced for her daughter was by her side by Walter Crane, illustration from the book “The story of Greece: told to boys and girls” by Mary Macgregor, 1914.
Isis holding a sistrum and an oinochoe
The goddess Isis holding a sistrum, a musical instrument specifically associated with her worship. Marble, from 117 until 138 BC, found in Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli. Albani Collection. Now in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
Estatua grupo formada por el dios creador Ptah y su esposa leontocéfala, Sekhmet. (Statue group formed by the creator god Ptah and his lion-headed wife, Sekhmet.) by Juan Rodríguez Lázaro
This statue, from the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty, if now at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
Sakhmet, whose name means “the powerful one,” was a warlike, bloodthirsty goddess. She was usually portrayed as a slender woman with the head of a lioness. As the daughter of the sun-god Re, Sakhmet waged war against both the enemies of the sun-god and the enemies of the king, who was the “physical son of Re.” This head of Sakhmet, in Glencairn’s Egyptian gallery, shows the goddess wearing both the solar disk and the uraeus, a fire-spitting cobra that symbolized kingship (the head of this uraeus is broken off). ow.ly/2s87307cTlg
~ Isis.
Culture: Roman
Period: Middle Imperial period
Date: 1st half A.D. 2nd century
Place of origin: Naples, Italy
Medium: Marble, black and white
(Source: khm.at)
