Isis of Coptos

This statue known as, “Isis of Coptos” is a granodiorite statue of the goddess Isis or Hathor thought to have discovered within the Temple of Min.
Coptos is the Greek name for Qift, a city in the Qena Governorate of Egypt about 43 km north of Luxor. In Ancient Egyptian it would have been named “Gbtyw”.

The statue dates from the 18th Dynasty, c. 1539–1292 B.C. and is currently on display in Italy at the Egyptian Museum of Turin, (Museo Egizio. Cat. 694)