Cup with Serapis, Isis, and Horus in the Getty Villa, June 2016

Title: Cup with Zodiacal Signs

Artist/Maker: Unknown

Culture: Romano-Egyptian

Place: Egypt (Place created)

Date: about A.D. 150

Medium: Steatite

Object Number: 83.AA.327

Dimensions: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line: Gift of Stefan Hornak

Object Type: Cup

This cup is decorated with relief representations of Isis, Serapis and the Zodiac. On the exterior, Isis-Sothis seated on a dog, holding a torch and a cornucopia. Around the tondo, two bands of decoration - the twelve signs of the Zodiac (inner) and several god-busts and emblems (outer). On the interior, at the centre, a rectangular fish pond. Around it, a river god (Nile) with cornucopia, crocodile with a hawk's head, and two standing figures. The one on the left is hawk-headed with a double-horned crown, holding staff-like attributes. The other is a goddess with kithara and Isis crown. Below, a lotus flower and Isis-Demeter with a fringed dress, two ears of grain in her right hand, and her left possibly placed in her hair.

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