Ostracon Depicting a Queen Holding a Sistrum, ca. 1295–1070
Ostracon Depicting a Queen Holding a Sistrum, New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19–20, ca. 1295–1070 , From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Workmen's Huts near KV 55 (site 18) or Btwn 18/21, Davis/Ayrton excavations, 1907–08, Limestone, paint, H. × w. × d. cm (9 3/4 × 3 11/16 × 1 in.), A queen/queen mother, identifiable by the vulture cap with uraeus that she wears, shakes two arc sistra. The fully preserved example has a Hathor emblem below the arc. On the queen's head is a modius of uraei whose bodies are extremely elongated
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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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