Unusual Hathor statues found at the Temple of Mut: petal-shaped ears instead of traditional 'cow ears.' Features include elongated eyes, elegant noses, triangular faces, hair around the sides, skinny necks, and crowns on top.
Hathor statues show petal-shaped ears contradicting traditional descriptions
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Key facts
- Hathor statues feature petal-shaped ears rather than traditional 'cow ears'
- Statues have elongated eyes, nice nose, and triangular face shapes
- Many statue heads and faces are deliberately missing
- Black basalt Sekhmet statues are the primary statuary at the site
- Hathor is depicted with hair around the sides, skinny neck, and crown on top
Sources
Mut Temple In Luxor - Main Destinations in Egypt - egyptopia.comegyptopia.com
... Temple and it was used until the Greco-Roman Period. Today, the temple is in ruins and hundreds of statues are scattered all over its central part. The temple ...
Traces of Scenes and Artifacts Featuring Hathor - Joan Lansberryjoanannlansberry.com
The "Karnak Cachette", discovered by Georges Legrain, featured in addition to bronze statues, nearly 800 stone statues, among them more than 350 cube statues ( ...
Triad of Ramesses II - Egypt Museumegypt-museum.com
Pink granite triad statue depicting king Ramesses II seated between the god Amun and the goddess Mut represented with the attributes of the goddess Hathor.
Exhibition Objects - Divine Egypt - The Metropolitan Museum of Artmetmuseum.org
Group statue of Hathor in four of her aspects, Stone - Quartzite. Returned to lender. Group statue of Hathor in four of her aspects. ca. 1295–1070 BCE.
Mut Temple - ARCE - American Research Center in Egyptarce.org
Ramesses II added a forecourt and pylon fronted by two colossal alabaster stelae and two colossal statues, both usurped from Amunhotep III. The stelae, created ...
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