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E11816

From: Egypt | Deir El-Bahari

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E11816
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Deir El-Bahari
Period Eighteenth Dynasty | New Kingdom
Date Made 1539-1292 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone | Pigment
Iconography Hathor
Description

Painted limestone column capital in the form of a bifacial Hathor head. Only one face is preserved. On her head, she wears a shrine with uraii in the recesses of the front, back, and sides. Probably part of a larger votive statue of a kneeling sistrophorous figure, the hand of which is partially preserved on one side of the head.

Height 25 cm
Width 15 cm
Depth 10 cm
Credit Line Distribution from the Egypt Exploration Fund; E. Naville, 1905
Other Number AES3740 - Other Number

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