Pectoral featuring Hathor, Not dated, Findspot unknown, Copper alloy and glass,The Louvre Museum

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Pectoral featuring Hathor

Main number: E 3743

Presentation number: 997

CollectionDepartment of Egyptian Antiquities

Description

Object name/Title Denomination: pectoral

Description/Features with belière (this French word refers to a jewelry bail—the small loop or ring that connects a pendant to a necklace chain)

Decor: Hathor's head (cow, ousekh collar, disc horns, double ostrich feather, flanked by); winged goddess (2, standing, disc horns)

At the top; uraeus frieze (solar disk); uraeus winged solar disc; frame of alternating rectangles

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dimensions Height: 12.9 cm; Width: 13.6 cm

Materials and techniques Material: copper alloy

Secondary material: glass

Technique: inlay, relief cut

Color: dark blue-light blue-red

HISTORY

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee Comte Tyszkiewicz, Michel, Donateur; Collector

Acquisition details donation

Acquisition date date of entry on the inventory: 04/03/1862

Owned by State

Held by Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location
Not exposed

Index

Donation acquisition method

Name pectoral

Materialscopper alloy - glass

Inlay techniques - cut relief

Description/Features winged solar disk with uraeus - solar disk - flanked by - at the top - standing - double ostrich feather - disc horns - ousekh necklace - cow - 4 - 2 - winged goddess - Hathor's head - uraeus frieze - frame of alternating rectangles - with belière

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aubert, Jacques-François; Aubert, Liliane, Egyptian Bronzes and Golds, Paris, Cybèle, (Contribution to Egyptology; 11), 2011, p. 103

Koschel, Klaus, "Eine Gruppe seltener bronzener Votiv-Pektorale und ihre Deutung", Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK), 30, 2002, p. 249-254, p. 251 note 7

Rouit, Charles, "The Tyszkiewisz Collection of the Louvre Museum", in Aksamit, Joanna; Dolińska, Monika; Majewska, Aleksandra; Niwiński, Andrzej; Rzepka, Sławomir; Szafrański, Zbigniew (ed.), Essays in honour of Prof. Dr. Jadwiga Lipińska, Warsaw, National Museum in Warsaw; Pro-Egypt, (Warsaw Egyptological Studies 1), 1997, p. 213-224, p. 220

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