BD Hathor Mistress of the West - Egypt

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BD Hathor Mistress of the West - Egypt

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Facsimile of a vignette from the Book of the Dead of Ani. Hathor, as the Mistress of the West (a goddess of the afterlife) emerges from a hill representing the Theban necropolis. She is depicted as a cow, wearing her typical the horns and sun-disk, along with a menat-necklace. Her eye is shaped like the sacred Eye of Horus. At bottom right is a stylized tomb.

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2016
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Scanned from The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day by James Wasserman et al.
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