PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 305-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF HATHOR
Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 B.C.
The fleshy nude female figure standing with her feet together on a small integral plinth, adorned with bracelets, armlets, earrings and anklets, her hair elaborately coifed with braids and cork screw locks, framed by floral elements in a triangularly accented circlet, the center adorned with a miniature crown decorated with plumes, a solar disk and cow's horns
20 in. (50.8 cm) high

Lot Essay

Although the type has traditionally been identified as Isis-Aphrodite, the presence of the cow's horns confirms that it is Hathor who is intended, the "Goddess of the West" who receives the dead into her realm. For the most recent discussion see no. 133 in Walker and Higgs, Cleopatra of Egypt, From History to Myth.

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