Figurine
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: NO NUMBER. EGYPTIAN CERAMIC FIGURINE, FEMALE? WITH LARGE HEADDRESS.
label: Notes
content: Hathor plaque. Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Betsy Bryan says could be modern; decoration on chest is a little odd. Hathor was patron goddess of miners, and associated with copper and turquoise. Many votive objects like this were left at temples and shrines to Hathor - lots of such in the Sinai and southern Israel, where copper and turquoise mines were. Hathor was worshipped as "Lady of Turquoise" in one mining region [Serabit el-Khadim, in Sinai?]. Small piece is not part of the Hathor plaque, it is an "aegis" - an amulet in the form of part of a counterpoise of a menat necklace [also related to worship of Hathor?]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: AT5569-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figurine