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Cow head

Votive Hathor cow's head with horns and sun disk crudely modelled in reddish-brown pottery, coated with red slip or paint and with remains of white paint. Damage to neck, horns and face. Either an offering on its own or may have been an ornament on a pottery vessel. From North Court, through which was causeway to Tuthmosis III temple.

Votive Hathor cow's head with horns and sun disk crudely modelled in reddish-brown pottery, coated with red slip or paint and with remains of white paint. Damage to neck, horns and face. Either an offering on its own or may have been an ornament on a pottery vessel. From North Court, through which was causeway to Tuthmosis III temple.

Object Cow head
Provenance Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt
Site Mentuhotep II Temple
Period Dynasty XVIII
Material Pottery
Subject Egyptology
Ref. No 1904.48:16
Copyrights Bolton Council