Cow's Head from a frontal representation of a cow emerging from a wall 664-610 B.C. Late Period, Saite Recent work at the tomb of Nespekashuty (see 23.3.468) has shown that this cow head, excavated by the Museum in the 1920s, stood over a statue of a wrapped figure. The cow was rendered as if emerging from the north wall false-door niche in the second room of the tomb and the wrapped figure, representing the tomb owner Nespekashuty, stood against its breast.Cow statues protecting the king were associated with the worship of Hathor in the mountain at Deir el-Bahri in Thebes since the Middle Kingdom. In the Ramesside Period such statues of Hathor protecting the king were included in a few non-royal tombs at Saqqara, and by the late Ramesside Period an example is known that depicts the cow protecting a non-royal person. Hathoric imagery remained popular during the Third Intermediate Period, but decorated tombs only resumed with the Kushite-Saite Period. With that, cow statues appeared aga

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Cow's Head from a frontal representation of a cow emerging from a wall 664-610 B.C. Late Period, Saite Recent work at the tomb of Nespekashuty (see 23.3.468) has shown that this cow head, excavated by the Museum in the 1920s, stood over a statue of a wrapped figure. The cow was rendered as if emerging from the north wall false-door niche in the second room of the tomb and the wrapped figure, representing the tomb owner Nespekashuty, stood against its breast.Cow statues protecting the king were associated with the worship of Hathor in the mountain at Deir el-Bahri in Thebes since the Middle Kingdom. In the Ramesside Period such statues of Hathor protecting the king were included in a few non-royal tombs at Saqqara, and by the late Ramesside Period an example is known that depicts the cow protecting a non-royal person. Hathoric imagery remained popular during the Third Intermediate Period, but decorated tombs only resumed with the Kushite-Saite Period. With that, cow statues appeared aga

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