Period: | | Egypt, New Kingdom, New Kingdom |
Dating: | | 1570 BC1070 BC |
Origin: | | Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes |
Material: | | Bronze |
Physical: | | 14.7cm. (5.7 in.) - 377 g. (13.3 oz.) |
Catalog: | | MET.MM.00879 |
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This bronze statuette portrays Goddess Hathor as a cow-headed female form. She wears a wig and a mortar crown with an uraeus, originally topped with horns and a solar disk, now missing. The body was originally gilded.
This item was originally in the collection of Lord Talbot.
Bibliography (for this item)
Shaw, Ian, and Paul Nicholson
1995 The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London, United Kingdom. (119)
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