Inlay of a squatting goddess, probably Hathor

Inlay of a squatting goddess, probably Hathor

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This inlay represents a small crouching female goddess. She wears the vulture headdress associated by this time with great mother goddesses, topped by a modius of uraei and a disk, all broken away. She originally held a scepter in the fist on her knee. The king Nectanebo II incorporated into his royal names epithets relating him to the goddess Hathor.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.