The goddess Hathor. Detail
Detail. The goddess Hathor welcomes Ramesses III and his son Amonherkhepshef. Hathor, depicted as a woman adorned with a vulture-like headdress surmounted by cow horns and a solar disc, was an ancient deity whose name Ht-Hr means 'the abode of Horo'. Hathor was considered the goddess of music, dance, joy and love as well as being the protector of the monarchy, but she also had a funerary character and was worshipped on the western shore of Thebes, the area of royal and private necropolises. A goddess of many epithets, associated with other important Egyptian and later near-eastern female deities, she was worshipped throughout Egypt.
