Scarab
New Kingdom, Ramesside
The underside of this scarab depicts two standing feline-headed goddesses. Both heads seem to be that of a lioness. They stand opposite each other and each holds a papyrus scepter in front. The goddess on the left has a rearing cobra on her head, while the one on the right shows a sundisk with a cobra. In the center above them is a sundisk and below them is a neb-hieroglyph. Several goddesses are known that can be depicted with a lion’s head and a sundisk and/or uraeus. The identification of these two goddesses is therefore unclear.
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