Goddess Hathor Suckling Amenhotep II Painted sandstone relief depicts the cow-goddess Hathor sucklin
Goddess Hathor Suckling Amenhotep II Painted sandstone relief depicts the cow-goddess Hathor suckling king Amenhotep II as a young boy beneath the cow’s right side. Detail from the Shrine of Hathor.This shrine and the cow’s statue were retrieved from under heaps of debris south of the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. The shrine is from the reign of Thutmose III . Its roof is painted blue with yellow stars to imitate the Vault of Heaven.New Kingdom, mid 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479-1425 BC. The Shrine is now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 38575 -- source link
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