"This head of Isis, turned to the right, with delicately parted lips, is almost entirely intact except for the ends of a few locks of hair and the left edge of her tiara. The neck stops at a recessed fitting, a tenon, indicating that the head...
Architecture; Temples; Religious facilities; Buildings; Paintings; Murals; Storytelling; Myths; Legends; Fictitious characters; Supernatural beings; Goddesses; Women; People associated with religion; Men; Nudes; Clothing & dress; Wreaths; Horns...
"The fresco depicts Io, left on the rocks at Canopus by the river god; here she takes the hand of Isis, who waits for her with a cobra in her left hand and a crocodile under her feet." (Caption, p. 96)
"With her hair separated in two sections of coiled locks, this figure is dressed in a long tunic, its folds slipping off to expose the right shoulder. A heavy fringed cloak hangs from the left shoulder and is wrapped around the body, under the...
