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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure NAF-egy-009. The rearing uraeus hooded cobras with the solar discs atop placed inside the niches of the decorative shrines resting on the human-bovine heads of the goddess of the sky, dance, love, beauty, joy, motherhood, foreign lands, mining, music and fertility Hathor. |
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Artist/Workshop: | Historical/Art Period, Date: |
Location: | Monument: |
| Limestone | Low relief (Roof Chapel, colon-nade, figural sistra-form capitals, carved decoration, in situ) |
Royal workshops | Ptolemaic, Ptolemy XII Auletes (r. 80-58/55-51 BC)/ Roman Imperial, Tiberius (r. 14-37 AD), 54 BC-37 AD |
Dendera Temple Complex, Dendera, Qena, Central Egypt | Temple of Hathor |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First Egyptian Expedition, 5-19 March 2006). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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