Image: Hathor capital - Pharaoh exhibit - Cleveland Museum of Art (27360310044)
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Description: Red granite sculpture of Hathor in the form of a capital for a column, created in Egypt about 874 to 850 BC. Found in the Temple of Bastet at Bubastis. Hathor was the goddess of women, music, dance, and fertility, and she welcomed the dead into the West (the next life).
Title: Hathor capital - Pharaoh exhibit - Cleveland Museum of Art (27360310044)
Credit: Hathor capital - Pharaoh exhibit - Cleveland Museum of Art
Author: Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
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