Gilded Hathor Head from Tomb of Tutankamen
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Date
-1332--1322Description
Gilded, wooden head of a statue of a Hathor Cow, frontal view, from Tutankhamun's tomb; Tutankhamun [Nebkheperure] (reigned ca. 1332-ca. 1323 BCE)was an ancient Egyptian king of the late 18th Dynasty. His virtually intact Theban tomb (numbered KV 62) was discovered at the Valley of the Kings, in 1922, by Howard Carter. The art of Tutankhamun's reign epitomizes the immediate post-Amarna style. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/15/2008)
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work)Subject
animals, deities, Egypt--Religion, Tutankhamen, King of Egypt, Eighteenth Dynasty, New Kingdom (Egyptian)
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