Clip Art

[ikhet_sekhmet]

I've bought rather silly amounts of Ancient Egyptian clip art. Now, the images are often incorrectly labelled, and never have any info about where they originally came from. For most purposes, that's hardly going to be a problem! But I'd love to be able to identify some of the images I've got, especially some of the weirder ones. So let me start with image #168 from Dover's Egyptian Designs CD ROM and Book:

I have tracked this creature to her lair: the tomb of Khety at Beni Hasan, or more accurately, a drawing of her in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, which explains:

"But the gentleman has been given as another companion a little female griffin with doglike body, hawk's head, and, as [a] tail, the stem and flower of a lotus. The creature is fantastically colored as if it had folded wings, and a collar with a lead is round its neck. It seems clearly intended as a pet of the owner, and above it is written 'Her name is Saget.' [Probably] the artist has composed a jest, insisting that if the owner and his wife like to have about them queer mongrel dogs, apes, dwarfs with club feet, etc., they ought to be enraptured with a cross between an animal, a bird, and a flower."

(I've also seen this griffin, and other fantastical creatures from Beni Hasan, at clipart.com.)

ETA: Thanks to Flickr, here's Saget in her original setting!
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Davies, N. de G. The Egyptian Expedition 1931-1932: The Work of the Graphic Branch of the Expedition. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 28, (4) Part 2, April 1933 pp. 23-29.