Head of the Divine Cow
One of our treasured members brought his sister to the museum while she was visiting from San Francisco. Her brother had the museum on the top of his list for her to visit. It was an opportunity for them to share a childhood passion. We are glad they came together. She chose the Head of the Divine Cow as this week's spotlight.
The entrance to the Place of Eternity (the Theban necropolis) was the legendary dwelling place of Hathor, goddess of the west. Hathor’s manifestation in the form of the divine cow, owing to her origins in an ancient agrarian culture, is splendidly portrayed in this gilt wooden votive sculpture found on the Treasury floor between the Anubis shrine and the Canopic shrine, with its face to the west. The meaning behind the curious varnish of black resin on the neck and long majestic horns is a mystery.
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