Did you know...
*In ancient Egypt, the cow symbolized the Goddess of Joy, Love, and Music.

*Cows were important in plowing the lands for sowing crops in ancient Egypt.

Look for...
*The solar disk between her horns

*The wavy lines that symbolize mountains

Hathor Emerging from the Mountain
Detail of the Coffin Case and Cover of the Priestess of Amen-Ra, Nesykhonsu
Gessoed and painted sycamore fig wood, height 6 feet 11 inches
Egypt, Thebes, late Dynasty 21 or early Dynasty 22, 959-909 bc
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1914.714