Finials in the form of busts of the goddess Isis decorate the ends of this gold bracelet. The figure on the left wears a Uraeus headdress; that on the right wears a Hathor headdress. Originally worshipped only in Egypt, Isis and her cult spread throughout the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period. The goddess was the focus of a mystery cult which promised a better afterlife to its initiates.
Romano-Egyptian, ca. 100 BC to 100 AD. Now in the Getty Museum.
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