# Ring Depicting Isis and Horus

- By: Ancient Egyptian
- Date: Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)
- Medium: Gold
- Classification: Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions: 1.6 × 2.2 × 2 cm (5/8 × 7/8 × 13/16 in.)
- Culture: Egypt
- Credit line: Gift of Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/140634)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/01a63a93-8e8f-bcfa-63f2-43c6bc4ddb2c/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

One side of this ring bears the title of a priest of Thoeris named Horemakhbit. The other side shows Isis wearing her tall horned headdress and seated on a throne nursing Horus, surrounded by flowers that represent the papyrus marsh in which she sheltered her son. The name Horemakhbit means “Horus in the Marsh”; therefore the image of Isis and Horus is a visual pun of the priest’s name.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0