ClassificationsAncient Egyptian Art

Cow Goddess from an Offering Bowl

Place CreatedEgypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodNew Kingdom, Dynasty 18

Date1539-1292 BCE

MediumBronze

Credit LineMohamed Farid Khamis/Oriental Weavers Fund

Dimensions3 x 3 1/8 in. (7.6 x 7.9 cm)

Object number2005.031.003

Label TextThis bronze figure of a cow, the bovine form of the goddess Hathor, would have originally been affixed to the inside of a metal bowl. Intact examples have been found in Thebes, where two temples dedicated to Hathor existed during the 18th Dynasty. Hathor was associated with love, sexuality, and fertility.
Exhibition HistoryFrom Pharaohs to Emperors: New Egyptian and Classical Antiquities at Emory, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 14 - April 2, 2006
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, 2006 - Present
Published ReferencesRoyal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World Volume XII (2001), 115, number 344.
MCCM Newsletter, December 2005 - February 2006.

Terms

ProvenanceEx coll. Horace L. Mayer (1899-1968), Williamstown, Massachusetts. Lent by Mayer to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, May 7, 1930. Ex coll. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1978.555), received as a gift from Mayer, December 1978. Deaccessioned by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 28, 1991. With Jerome Eisenberg (1930-2022) [Royal-Athena Galleries], New York, New York, from 2000. Purchased by MCCM from Royal-Athena Galleries.

Status

On view

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