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Published by James Wasserman; facsimile made by E. A. Wallis Budge; original artist unknown
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English: Facsimile of a vignette from the Book of the Dead of Ani. Hathor, as the Mistress of the West (a goddess of the afterlife) emerges from a hill representing the Theban necropolis. She is depicted as a cow, wearing her typical the horns and sun-disk, along with a menat-necklace. Her eye is shaped like the sacred Eye of Horus. At bottom right is a stylized tomb.
Date Book published 1994; facsimile created 1890; original artwork created c. 1300 BC
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Source/Photographer Scanned from The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day by James Wasserman et al.

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