File:BD Hathor Mistress of the West.jpg
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Published by James Wasserman; facsimile made by E. A. Wallis Budge; original artist unknown |
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English: Facsimile of a vignette from the Book of the Dead of Ani. Hathor, as the Mistress of the West (a goddess of the afterlife) emerges from a hill representing the Theban necropolis. She is depicted as a cow, wearing her typical the horns and sun-disk, along with a menat-necklace. Her eye is shaped like the sacred Eye of Horus. At bottom right is a stylized tomb. |
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| Date | Book published 1994; facsimile created 1890; original artwork created c. 1300 BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | Scanned from The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day by James Wasserman et al. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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