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Source Description
This rare relief shows King Necho II facing the cow-goddess Hathor, who wears a vulture headdress topped by a sun-disk and cow horns. The inscription above the goddess may once have read, "I grant you every country in submission."
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
4666
label
Relief with Hathor and King Necho II
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
4666
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Relief with Hathor and King Necho II
description
This rare relief shows King Necho II facing the cow-goddess Hathor, who wears a vulture headdress topped by a sun-disk and cow horns. The inscription above the goddess may once have read, "I grant you every country in submission."
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 600 BCE (Late Period)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
reliefs
sculpture
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
14.5
height
27.2
depth
3.5
dimensionsRaw
5 11/16 x 10 11/16 x 1 3/8 in. (14.5 x 27.2 x 3.5 cm)
style
Saitic
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
dynasty
26th Dynasty
reign
Necho II (610-595 BC)
med
limestone
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
EGY
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
893f814da1e35d42