Scaraboid with an image of Hathor

New Kingdom

ca. 1550–1295 B.C.

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 117

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 Anuqet.

The opposite is flat and bears an image of the protective goddess Taweret with a knife(?) to fight fiends and the hieroglyph for protection.

Artwork Details

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Provenance

Title: Scaraboid with an image of Hathor
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1550–1295 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: Faience
Dimensions: L. 1.2 cm (1/2 in); L. 0.9 cm (3/8 in); h. 0.3 cm (1/8 in)
Credit Line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910
Object Number: 10.130.762
Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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