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Relief with Hathor and King Necho II

Accession: 22.135
Dynasty: 26th Dynasty
Reign: Necho II (610-595 BC)
Date: ca. 600 BCE (Late Period)
Date range: 612 BCE – 588 BCE
Materials: ['limestone']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), Relief with Hathor and King Necho II (22.135). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/220061

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<p>This rare relief shows King Necho II facing the cow-goddess Hathor, who wears a vulture headdress topped by a sun-disk and cow horns. The inscription above the goddess may once have read, "I grant you every country in submission."</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.135' rel='external'>Relief with Hathor and King Necho II</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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Deities Hathor

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Walters-AccNum 22.135 tier-2
Walters-id 4666 tier-2

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