Editing Isis (section)

===Iconography===
Images of Isis made outside Egypt were Hellenistic in style, like many of the images of her made in Egypt in Hellenistic and Roman times. The attributes she bore varied widely.{{sfn|Bianchi|2007|pp=480–482, 494}} She sometimes wore the Hathoric cow-horn headdress, but Greeks and Romans reduced its size and often interpreted it as a crescent moon.{{sfn|Delia|1998|pp=542–543}} She could also wear headdresses incorporating leaves, flowers, or ears of grain.{{sfn|Griffiths|1975|pp=124–126}} Other common traits included corkscrew locks of hair and an elaborate mantle tied in a large knot over the breasts, which originated in ordinary Egyptian clothing but was treated as a symbol of the goddess outside Egypt.{{sfn|Walters|1988|pp=5–7}}{{refn|group="Note"|This knot is sometimes called the "Isis-knot", although it should not be confused with the ''tyet'' symbol, which is also sometimes called the "knot of Isis".{{sfn|Bianchi|1980|p=10}}}} In her hands she could carry a uraeus or a sistrum, both taken from her Egyptian iconography,{{sfn|Griffiths|1975|pp=132–135}} or a [[situla]], a vessel used for [[libation]]s of water or milk that were performed in Isis's cult.{{sfn|Walters|1988|pp=20–25}}

As Isis-Fortuna or Isis-Tyche she held a rudder, representing control of fate, in her right hand and a [[cornucopia]], standing for abundance, in her left.{{sfn|Donalson|2003|pp=6–7}} As Isis Pharia she wore a cloak that billowed behind her like a sail, and as Isis Lactans, she nursed Harpocrates.{{sfn|Donalson|2003|pp=6–7, 74}} At times she was shown resting a foot on a [[celestial sphere]], representing her control of the cosmos.{{sfn|Pachis|2010|pp=305–306}} The diverse imagery sprang from her varied roles; as Robert Steven Bianchi says, "Isis could represent anything to anyone and could be represented in any way imaginable."{{sfn|Bianchi|2007|p=494}}

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File:Estatuas del Canope de Villa Adriana 01.JPG|alt=Bust of a woman set in a niche|Bust of Isis-[[Sothis]]-[[Demeter]] from [[Hadrian's Villa]], second century CE
File:Detail of Persephone-Isis, Statue group of Persephone (as Isis) and Pluto (as Serapis), from the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods at Gortyna, mid-2nd century AD, Heraklion Archaeological Museum (30391383045).jpg|alt=Life-size statue of a woman|Statue of Isis-[[Persephone]] with corkscrew locks of hair and a sistrum, from [[Gortyna]], second century CE
File:Isis-Aphrodite Petit Palais ADUT01910.jpg|Isis-Aphrodite, [[polychrome]] terracotta, [[Alexandria]], first century CE
File:Isis-Fortuna Walters 54751.jpg|alt=Metal figurine of a woman|Bronze figurine of Isis-[[Fortuna]] with a [[cornucopia]] and a rudder, first century CE
File:MANNapoli 8836 Isis Fortune painting.jpg|alt=Fresco of a woman standing with her foot on a blue sphere|Fresco of Isis wearing a crescent headdress and resting her foot on a celestial sphere, first century CE
File:Casa degli Amorini Dorati. Fresco. 09.JPG|[[Anubis]], [[Harpocrates]], Isis and [[Serapis]], fresco from [[Pompeii]]
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