Scaraboid with an image of Hathor

Scaraboid with an image of Hathor

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This goddess face is flanked by the uraei that often accompany Hathor. Loop elements rise above the podium crown. These have sometimes been interpreted as a row of uraei, and by the later eighteenth dynasty this may be the case. However, the modius with uraei appears on queens’ crowns only in the time of Amenhotep III, so early loop crowns probably represent something else, possibly feathers like those worn on crowns by Bes and Anukis. The opposite is flat and bears an image of the protective goddess Taweret with a knife(?) to fight fiends and the hieroglyph for protection.

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.