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Title: Panel with Painted Image of Isis, Artist/Maker: Unknown, Culture: Romano-Egyptian, Place: Egypt (Place created), Date: A.D. 100–200, Medium: Tempera on wood, Object Number: 4.AP.22, Dimensions: 40 × 19 × 1.3 cm (15 3/4 × 7 1/2 × 1/2 in.), Her elaborate headdress and the characteristic “Isis knot†in her mantle identify the goddess Isis. The headdress combines floral elements with a central uraeus, all covered by a transparent veil. The goddess carries a staff on one shoulder and a wreath of pink flowers, like those seen on portraits of her worshippers, draped over the other. Provenance: by 1973 - 1974 Nicolas Koutoulakis, 1910 - 1996 (Geneva, Switzerland), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1974.