La déesse Isis avec des cornes, dans la barque qui l’emmène en Egypte · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La déesse Isis avec des cornes, dans la barque qui l’emmène en Egypte
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Egypt
Description: Isis is onboard the ship that will take her to Egypt, wearing a blue robe. She has two horns, and the symbolic white cow is pictured on the flag of the ship. The cow symbolism represents when Isis was raped by Jupiter and transformed into a cow before being sent away to hide the bad deed.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19801
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19801_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Io; Heifer; Ships; Egyptian goddess