Inlay of a squatting goddess, probably Hathor

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4th century B.C. · Faience · Egyptian 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.

Artist

Unknown

Date

4th century B.C.

Medium

Faience

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926