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An Archaic Representation of ḤatḥōrAuthor(s): A. J. ArkellSource: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 41 (Dec., 1955), pp. 125-126Published by: Egypt Exploration SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3855255
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top
of
the
wig (see fig.).
The
purpose
of these
symbols
of lifemust
be
the
magical
one
of
bestowing
it
on the
jar
or its
contents,
though
this feature
s
not otherwise
attested
n
this
connexion.'
The
other
stopper
(K)
is
entirely
hand-mouldedwith similar tracesof
pigmentation.
The
face
has
a
different
xpression
and is
beardless,
while
I
(and, presumably,
he
two
missing
ones)
is
shown
wearing
he
short
chinbeard.2
The
socket
is
only
i
in.,
and
therefore
much
shorter han that of
I.
Judging
by
their
shape
and
general
appearance,
hese
Canopic ars
antedate he
later
part
of
the
New
Kingdom,
when
animal-headed
toppers,
more
obviouslyepresentative
of
the four
sons
of
Horus,
came nto
fashion.
The fortunate
ircumstances
f
heircumstances
f
their
beingnscribed
n
hieratic
characters
allows them
to be
dated
on
palaeographical
rounds
to
the first
part
of the
Eighteenth
Dynasty.3
MANFRED
CASSIRER
Two
Petrie
manuscripts
IN
unpacking
he
Petrie
Collection,
one
page
of
manuscript
n
Petrie's
handwriting
was found
which
must
have
become detached from his Funeral Furniture
(published
in
1937)
before it
went
to
the
printers.
It runs as
follows:-
'A modelof the sarcophaguss sometimesplacedbefore the figure.
'Those here are
654.
Hollow
figure
n two
halves;
three
long
columnsof
inscription
n stucco
in
front,
gilded
and
scraped
bare,
too
rough
to
be
read. Edwards.
21-8
h.
655.
Solid
figure,
painted
red,
with blue network
over the
body,
and blue
hair;
column of
inscrip-
tion
on
front,
illegible.
i
o h.
656.
Plain wood
figure,
good
work,
ood
work
175
h. Hawara.
657.
Base
of
a
similar
figure,
incised Osiris
give
life,
and
Anup
in
Ut,
for
Heka .
I2
long.
Hawara.
'The
Amulets found with
the
mummy
are
mainly
the
figures
of
the
gods,
and
amulets
relating
to
the
gods.
The
arrangement
f them is
shown
in
the
plans
of
mummies n
Amulets,
ls.
50-54.
'Lastly
the
Coptic
crosses
placed
overthe
gravesbelong
expressly
o
the continued
belief in
the
revived
body.'
With
the
abovewas
found the
missing manuscript
f the
Catalogue
olume
I4,
Glassand
Glazes,
also
in
Petrie's
handwriting,
ut without
any
illustrations,
nd
with
only
the
numbering
of
the
glass
objects
completed.
It is
hoped
that it will
be
possible
to
complete
this
volume
and
publish
it in
due
course.
A.
J. ARKELL
An
archaic
representation
of
Heathor
WAINWRIGHT'S
suggestion
n
Labyrinth
Gerzeh and
Mazghuneh,
p.
22,
that
the
palette
on
pl.
6,
7
mayrepresent
Hathor
in an
astronomical
spect
as
received
striking
confirmationrom
a
study
of
the piecesfromthe largeflutedporphyry ar found by Quibellat Hierakonpolis nd published n
Hierakonpolis,
II,
pl.
59,
figs.
4-7,
and
pp.
14
and
3I.
Some
of the
fragments
are in
the Petrie
Collec-
tion
at
University
College,
London,
and
others
including
all
those
with
relief on
them,
are
in the
AshmoleanMuseumat
Oxford;
and
it
is
by courtesy
of
the
Keeper
of the
Antiquities
Department
at
the
Ashmolean hat
it has
been
possible
to
make
this
study.
I
They
cannot
be
marks for the
purpose
of
identification' s
on the
objects
described
by
Reisner
(op.
cit.
64,
n.
x;
cf.
Hayes,
op.
cit.
323).
2
Reisner,
op.
cit.
62-63. According
to
Sethe
(Zur
Geschichte d.
Einbalsamierung
bei den
Agyptern,
15),
the
face
of
Imsety
is
shown
beardless
during
the
M.K.
because the
deity
was
originally
female. On the other
hand,
early types
of
stoppers
often show
the
likeness
of
the
deceased
rather
than
a
representation
of the
sons of
Horus.
In
the
present
case,
anyhow,
it is
K.ebhsenuf
who
lacks the beard.
3
For
this
statement
I am
much
indebted to
Professor
Cernm.
Curiously, phrases
such
as
wnn.i
m s;.k
are
elsewhere attested on late specimens
(Dyns.
XXII-XXV)
only;
cf.
Reisner,
op. cit., 68-69.
M
top
of
the
wig (see fig.).
The
purpose
of these
symbols
of lifemust
be
the
magical
one
of
bestowing
it
on the
jar
or its
contents,
though
this feature
s
not otherwise
attested
n
this
connexion.'
The
other
stopper
(K)
is
entirely
hand-mouldedwith similar tracesof
pigmentation.
The
face
has
a
different
xpression
and is
beardless,
while
I
(and, presumably,
he
two
missing
ones)
is
shown
wearing
he
short
chinbeard.2
The
socket
is
only
i
in.,
and
therefore
much
shorter han that of
I.
Judging
by
their
shape
and
general
appearance,
hese
Canopic ars
antedate he
later
part
of
the
New
Kingdom,
when
animal-headed
toppers,
more
obviouslyepresentative
of
the four
sons
of
Horus,
came nto
fashion.
The fortunate
ircumstances
f
heircumstances
f
their
beingnscribed
n
hieratic
characters
allows them
to be
dated
on
palaeographical
rounds
to
the first
part
of the
Eighteenth
Dynasty.3
MANFRED
CASSIRER
Two
Petrie
manuscripts
IN
unpacking
he
Petrie
Collection,
one
page
of
manuscript
n
Petrie's
handwriting
was found
which
must
have
become detached from his Funeral Furniture
(published
in
1937)
before it
went
to
the
printers.
It runs as
follows:-
'A modelof the sarcophaguss sometimesplacedbefore the figure.
'Those here are
654.
Hollow
figure
n two
halves;
three
long
columnsof
inscription
n stucco
in
front,
gilded
and
scraped
bare,
too
rough
to
be
read. Edwards.
21-8
h.
655.
Solid
figure,
painted
red,
with blue network
over the
body,
and blue
hair;
column of
inscrip-
tion
on
front,
illegible.
i
o h.
656.
Plain wood
figure,
good
work,
ood
work
175
h. Hawara.
657.
Base
of
a
similar
figure,
incised Osiris
give
life,
and
Anup
in
Ut,
for
Heka .
I2
long.
Hawara.
'The
Amulets found with
the
mummy
are
mainly
the
figures
of
the
gods,
and
amulets
relating
to
the
gods.
The
arrangement
f them is
shown
in
the
plans
of
mummies n
Amulets,
ls.
50-54.
'Lastly
the
Coptic
crosses
placed
overthe
gravesbelong
expressly
o
the continued
belief in
the
revived
body.'
With
the
abovewas
found the
missing manuscript
f the
Catalogue
olume
I4,
Glassand
Glazes,
also
in
Petrie's
handwriting,
ut without
any
illustrations,
nd
with
only
the
numbering
of
the
glass
objects
completed.
It is
hoped
that it will
be
possible
to
complete
this
volume
and
publish
it in
due
course.
A.
J. ARKELL
An
archaic
representation
of
Heathor
WAINWRIGHT'S
suggestion
n
Labyrinth
Gerzeh and
Mazghuneh,
p.
22,
that
the
palette
on
pl.
6,
7
mayrepresent
Hathor
in an
astronomical
spect
as
received
striking
confirmationrom
a
study
of
the piecesfromthe largeflutedporphyry ar found by Quibellat Hierakonpolis nd published n
Hierakonpolis,
II,
pl.
59,
figs.
4-7,
and
pp.
14
and
3I.
Some
of the
fragments
are in
the Petrie
Collec-
tion
at
University
College,
London,
and
others
including
all
those
with
relief on
them,
are
in the
AshmoleanMuseumat
Oxford;
and
it
is
by courtesy
of
the
Keeper
of the
Antiquities
Department
at
the
Ashmolean hat
it has
been
possible
to
make
this
study.
I
They
cannot
be
marks for the
purpose
of
identification' s
on the
objects
described
by
Reisner
(op.
cit.
64,
n.
x;
cf.
Hayes,
op.
cit.
323).
2
Reisner,
op.
cit.
62-63. According
to
Sethe
(Zur
Geschichte d.
Einbalsamierung
bei den
Agyptern,
15),
the
face
of
Imsety
is
shown
beardless
during
the
M.K.
because the
deity
was
originally
female. On the other
hand,
early types
of
stoppers
often show
the
likeness
of
the
deceased
rather
than
a
representation
of the
sons of
Horus.
In
the
present
case,
anyhow,
it is
K.ebhsenuf
who
lacks the beard.
3
For
this
statement
I am
much
indebted to
Professor
Cernm.
Curiously, phrases
such
as
wnn.i
m s;.k
are
elsewhere attested on late specimens
(Dyns.
XXII-XXV)
only;
cf.
Reisner,
op. cit., 68-69.
M
top
of
the
wig (see fig.).
The
purpose
of these
symbols
of lifemust
be
the
magical
one
of
bestowing
it
on the
jar
or its
contents,
though
this feature
s
not otherwise
attested
n
this
connexion.'
The
other
stopper
(K)
is
entirely
hand-mouldedwith similar tracesof
pigmentation.
The
face
has
a
different
xpression
and is
beardless,
while
I
(and, presumably,
he
two
missing
ones)
is
shown
wearing
he
short
chinbeard.2
The
socket
is
only
i
in.,
and
therefore
much
shorter han that of
I.
Judging
by
their
shape
and
general
appearance,
hese
Canopic ars
antedate he
later
part
of
the
New
Kingdom,
when
animal-headed
toppers,
more
obviouslyepresentative
of
the four
sons
of
Horus,
came nto
fashion.
The fortunate
ircumstances
f
heircumstances
f
their
beingnscribed
n
hieratic
characters
allows them
to be
dated
on
palaeographical
rounds
to
the first
part
of the
Eighteenth
Dynasty.3
MANFRED
CASSIRER
Two
Petrie
manuscripts
IN
unpacking
he
Petrie
Collection,
one
page
of
manuscript
n
Petrie's
handwriting
was found
which
must
have
become detached from his Funeral Furniture
(published
in
1937)
before it
went
to
the
printers.
It runs as
follows:-
'A modelof the sarcophaguss sometimesplacedbefore the figure.
'Those here are
654.
Hollow
figure
n two
halves;
three
long
columnsof
inscription
n stucco
in
front,
gilded
and
scraped
bare,
too
rough
to
be
read. Edwards.
21-8
h.
655.
Solid
figure,
painted
red,
with blue network
over the
body,
and blue
hair;
column of
inscrip-
tion
on
front,
illegible.
i
o h.
656.
Plain wood
figure,
good
work,
ood
work
175
h. Hawara.
657.
Base
of
a
similar
figure,
incised Osiris
give
life,
and
Anup
in
Ut,
for
Heka .
I2
long.
Hawara.
'The
Amulets found with
the
mummy
are
mainly
the
figures
of
the
gods,
and
amulets
relating
to
the
gods.
The
arrangement
f them is
shown
in
the
plans
of
mummies n
Amulets,
ls.
50-54.
'Lastly
the
Coptic
crosses
placed
overthe
gravesbelong
expressly
o
the continued
belief in
the
revived
body.'
With
the
abovewas
found the
missing manuscript
f the
Catalogue
olume
I4,
Glassand
Glazes,
also
in
Petrie's
handwriting,
ut without
any
illustrations,
nd
with
only
the
numbering
of
the
glass
objects
completed.
It is
hoped
that it will
be
possible
to
complete
this
volume
and
publish
it in
due
course.
A.
J. ARKELL
An
archaic
representation
of
Heathor
WAINWRIGHT'S
suggestion
n
Labyrinth
Gerzeh and
Mazghuneh,
p.
22,
that
the
palette
on
pl.
6,
7
mayrepresent
Hathor
in an
astronomical
spect
as
received
striking
confirmationrom
a
study
of
the piecesfromthe largeflutedporphyry ar found by Quibellat Hierakonpolis nd published n
Hierakonpolis,
II,
pl.
59,
figs.
4-7,
and
pp.
14
and
3I.
Some
of the
fragments
are in
the Petrie
Collec-
tion
at
University
College,
London,
and
others
including
all
those
with
relief on
them,
are
in the
AshmoleanMuseumat
Oxford;
and
it
is
by courtesy
of
the
Keeper
of the
Antiquities
Department
at
the
Ashmolean hat
it has
been
possible
to
make
this
study.
I
They
cannot
be
marks for the
purpose
of
identification' s
on the
objects
described
by
Reisner
(op.
cit.
64,
n.
x;
cf.
Hayes,
op.
cit.
323).
2
Reisner,
op.
cit.
62-63. According
to
Sethe
(Zur
Geschichte d.
Einbalsamierung
bei den
Agyptern,
15),
the
face
of
Imsety
is
shown
beardless
during
the
M.K.
because the
deity
was
originally
female. On the other
hand,
early types
of
stoppers
often show
the
likeness
of
the
deceased
rather
than
a
representation
of the
sons of
Horus.
In
the
present
case,
anyhow,
it is
K.ebhsenuf
who
lacks the beard.
3
For
this
statement
I am
much
indebted to
Professor
Cernm.
Curiously, phrases
such
as
wnn.i
m s;.k
are
elsewhere attested on late specimens
(Dyns.
XXII-XXV)
only;
cf.
Reisner,
op. cit., 68-69.
M
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It is seen
that
all these
fragments
come from one
large
stone bowl about
z
ft.
in
diameter,
as
Quibell
says
'a
magnificent
vase,
similar
n
shape
and
size
to
that
on
pl.
XXXVI.
4'
and
not
only
'adorned
with vertical
luting'
but
with
figures
n relief on
the flat
rim
and
with a
base
ring
in
relief
representing
ring
of
grass
bound
with
palm-leaves
as
still used as
stands
or
gabana
coffee-pots
n
the Sudan-compare also,perhaps,Emery,The Tombof Hemaka,pl. 30, fig. 2). Indeed,it is not
impossible
that
it
was made
by
the hand
of
the
mastercraftsman
who
made
the
Narmer
palette.
Both
were
found
at
Hierakonpolis,
nd
a
fragment
of the fluted
pot
in
question
came
ike
the Narmer
palette
from
the
main
deposit
there.
One
of
the
figures
n relief on the rimmust have
been
a head
of
Hathor
as
a
cow,
similar
o the
heads
n
pairs
at the
top
of the
Narmer
palette,
but with stars
at
the
tip
of each
horn,
on
top
of the
forehead
and at
the
tip
of each
ear.
Quibell,
op.
cit.,
pl.
59,
5,
shows
the
star
at
the
tip
of the
right
horn and
one
ray
of
the star in the middle of the
forehead.
But
it is the
fragment
at
the
left of
fig.
6
which
gives
all the cluesto the solution.The
publishedphotograph
f it
shows
the
star at
the
tip
of
the
left
ear,
but it does
not show
clearly
eitherthe
pupil
of
the
eye
in
relief
(similar
o
the
eye
of
the
pelican(?)
n
fig.
4)
or-between
this
eye
and the star-a
line of
herring-bone
ncisions,
ike
those
inside the cow's earsof Hathoron the Narmerpalette.It does show, also in relief,the left-hand
angular
orner
of the baseof the
Hathor
head
(as
on the Narmer
palette
andthe
Gerzeh
palette).
An
attempt
will
be made to reconstruct his
unique ar,
and
if
successful
a
further
note on
the
jar
will
be
published.
Can
any
one with a
knowledge
of
astronomy uggest
an
actual
constellation
which
may
have
given
the
ancient
Egyptians
he ideaof
representing
Hiathor
hus
'pointed'
with
stars;
or
was
she
just
the
Cow
Lady
of
Heaven,
the
sky
goddess
who
sometimes
s
represented
with stars as
here,
sometimes
with the
moon between
her
horns,
as
frequently
n
Sinai,
and
sometimes
he sun
(Oerny,
Ancient
Egyptian
Religion,
p.
29)?
The
Cow
of Heaven is
represented
occasionally
with
stars
on
her
belly,
as in the
tomb of
Sethos I.
Probably
he
resemblance
f
the new moon
to a
cow's
horns
was the
reason
why
a
cow
goddess
was first
associatedwith
the
sky.
She would
then
soon be
thoughtof as
giving
birth
to the moon
and the
stars at
nightfall.
In
this
way
seems
to
have
arisen
the
concept
of
Hat-hor,
'the
house of Horus'the
sun-hawk.
A.
J.
ARKELL
Modern
designs
on
predynastic
slate
palettes
SCHARFF
n his Die
Altertuiimer
er Vor- und
Friihzeit
Agyptens(1929),
p.
125
and
pl.
31
,
published
as No.
223
a
fish-shaped
late
palette
which
was
obtained n
1900
by
Dr. K.
Reinhardt n
Egypt
but
is
of unknown
provenance.
t
is
Berlin
No.
14411.
It has
on
it an incised
design,
which is
given
in
detail
in Abb.
73,
and
the
antiquity
of which
was doubted
by
Scharff.He
said he
knew of
nothing
comparable
o
it. There
is, however,
at
UniversityCollege
another
late
palette
which
Petrie
bought
in Egyptandpublished n Prehistoric gypt
I920),
pl. 45, fig. 24, withoutanydescription. t is of
the
shape
which
he calledthe
pelta
andhis
type
30
D
(pl. 44).
Both
these
slates have a
complicated
design,
which
Scharff
hought
might
be a
net.
It
differs n
each
case,
but
in
each
at the
same time
there is
a
dog-faced
man
(?)
facingright,
and
a
dog-like
animal
with its tail
erect
facing
eft.
Nothing
about
the
designsappears
o
be
Egyptian;
andthe
incision s
done
in
a
peculiarway
so
that
all
lines
and
hatching
are made
up
of
zigzags,
eitherwell
spaced
out or
very
close,
which
look as if
they
had
been
made
by
'walking'
a
small
chisel-shaped
ool;
and
although
t would
not
have
been
impossible
to
have
done
this
with
a
small
predynastic
opper
chisel,
I
have
little doubt that
though
the
palettes
are
genuine,
the
designs
ncised on
them are
modern,
made
by
the
same
hand,
and
that
they
belong
to a
similar
school of
forgeries
as the
predynastic
pots
with
designs
recently painted
on
them,
published
by Guy
Brunton
n
Annalesdu
Service,
34,
149-56.
A.
J.
ARKELL
It is seen
that
all these
fragments
come from one
large
stone bowl about
z
ft.
in
diameter,
as
Quibell
says
'a
magnificent
vase,
similar
n
shape
and
size
to
that
on
pl.
XXXVI.
4'
and
not
only
'adorned
with vertical
luting'
but
with
figures
n relief on
the flat
rim
and
with a
base
ring
in
relief
representing
ring
of
grass
bound
with
palm-leaves
as
still used as
stands
or
gabana
coffee-pots
n
the Sudan-compare also,perhaps,Emery,The Tombof Hemaka,pl. 30, fig. 2). Indeed,it is not
impossible
that
it
was made
by
the hand
of
the
mastercraftsman
who
made
the
Narmer
palette.
Both
were
found
at
Hierakonpolis,
nd
a
fragment
of the fluted
pot
in
question
came
ike
the Narmer
palette
from
the
main
deposit
there.
One
of
the
figures
n relief on the rimmust have
been
a head
of
Hathor
as
a
cow,
similar
o the
heads
n
pairs
at the
top
of the
Narmer
palette,
but with stars
at
the
tip
of each
horn,
on
top
of the
forehead
and at
the
tip
of each
ear.
Quibell,
op.
cit.,
pl.
59,
5,
shows
the
star
at
the
tip
of the
right
horn and
one
ray
of
the star in the middle of the
forehead.
But
it is the
fragment
at
the
left of
fig.
6
which
gives
all the cluesto the solution.The
publishedphotograph
f it
shows
the
star at
the
tip
of
the
left
ear,
but it does
not show
clearly
eitherthe
pupil
of
the
eye
in
relief
(similar
o
the
eye
of
the
pelican(?)
n
fig.
4)
or-between
this
eye
and the star-a
line of
herring-bone
ncisions,
ike
those
inside the cow's earsof Hathoron the Narmerpalette.It does show, also in relief,the left-hand
angular
orner
of the baseof the
Hathor
head
(as
on the Narmer
palette
andthe
Gerzeh
palette).
An
attempt
will
be made to reconstruct his
unique ar,
and
if
successful
a
further
note on
the
jar
will
be
published.
Can
any
one with a
knowledge
of
astronomy uggest
an
actual
constellation
which
may
have
given
the
ancient
Egyptians
he ideaof
representing
Hiathor
hus
'pointed'
with
stars;
or
was
she
just
the
Cow
Lady
of
Heaven,
the
sky
goddess
who
sometimes
s
represented
with stars as
here,
sometimes
with the
moon between
her
horns,
as
frequently
n
Sinai,
and
sometimes
he sun
(Oerny,
Ancient
Egyptian
Religion,
p.
29)?
The
Cow
of Heaven is
represented
occasionally
with
stars
on
her
belly,
as in the
tomb of
Sethos I.
Probably
he
resemblance
f
the new moon
to a
cow's
horns
was the
reason
why
a
cow
goddess
was first
associatedwith
the
sky.
She would
then
soon be
thoughtof as
giving
birth
to the moon
and the
stars at
nightfall.
In
this
way
seems
to
have
arisen
the
concept
of
Hat-hor,
'the
house of Horus'the
sun-hawk.
A.
J.
ARKELL
Modern
designs
on
predynastic
slate
palettes
SCHARFF
n his Die
Altertuiimer
er Vor- und
Friihzeit
Agyptens(1929),
p.
125
and
pl.
31
,
published
as No.
223
a
fish-shaped
late
palette
which
was
obtained n
1900
by
Dr. K.
Reinhardt n
Egypt
but
is
of unknown
provenance.
t
is
Berlin
No.
14411.
It has
on
it an incised
design,
which is
given
in
detail
in Abb.
73,
and
the
antiquity
of which
was doubted
by
Scharff.He
said he
knew of
nothing
comparable
o
it. There
is, however,
at
UniversityCollege
another
late
palette
which
Petrie
bought
in Egyptandpublished n Prehistoric gypt
I920),
pl. 45, fig. 24, withoutanydescription. t is of
the
shape
which
he calledthe
pelta
andhis
type
30
D
(pl. 44).
Both
these
slates have a
complicated
design,
which
Scharff
hought
might
be a
net.
It
differs n
each
case,
but
in
each
at the
same time
there is
a
dog-faced
man
(?)
facingright,
and
a
dog-like
animal
with its tail
erect
facing
eft.
Nothing
about
the
designsappears
o
be
Egyptian;
andthe
incision s
done
in
a
peculiarway
so
that
all
lines
and
hatching
are made
up
of
zigzags,
eitherwell
spaced
out or
very
close,
which
look as if
they
had
been
made
by
'walking'
a
small
chisel-shaped
ool;
and
although
t would
not
have
been
impossible
to
have
done
this
with
a
small
predynastic
opper
chisel,
I
have
little doubt that
though
the
palettes
are
genuine,
the
designs
ncised on
them are
modern,
made
by
the
same
hand,
and
that
they
belong
to a
similar
school of
forgeries
as the
predynastic
pots
with
designs
recently painted
on
them,
published
by Guy
Brunton
n
Annalesdu
Service,
34,
149-56.
A.
J.
ARKELL
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