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Fragmentary votive basin with Hathor heads, dedicated by a “housemistress” by the name of Tamit

A basin reconstructed from seven fragments, originally graced with four heads – one of which is missing – showing the goddess with a human face, cow’s ears and a wig. The inscriptions contains an offering formula to Hathor, that she may grant “a good life, that she may follow her will, and that she may rejoice in a good old age” and food offerings for the woman Tamit.

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Stone / Limestone
86 cm x 20 cm
1458–1425 BCE
New Kingdom
Eighteenth Dynasty
Tuthmosis III
Gebelein / area of the temple of Hathor
Excavation Ernesto Schiaparelli, 1910
22049
Museum / Floor 2 / Room 05 / Showcase 07
Museo Egizio