Egyptian - Ring with Horus and Hathor - Walters 481620 - View D

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Egyptian - Ring with Horus and Hathor - Walters 481620 - View D

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A fragile openwork ring made of faience with designs in superimposed registers of plaques. The god Horus, represented as a hawk with disk on head, one wing up, one down, foot forward, alternates with heads of the cow-eared goddess Hathor. In all but one plaque she wears a low crown. In one she wears the characteristic heavy wig with spiral curls.

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