Ibis-headed goddess at Kom Ombo redux
Oct. 11th, 2010 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ikhet_sekhmetRemember this lady from Kom Ombo?
(For some reason, this image got a bunch of views from lj. Your guess is as good as mine.)
As you may recall, I was puzzled by the mismatch between a traveller's description of the figure as having an ibis head, and the vulture-headed drawing in Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique.
But here's the same figure, this time from Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie:
So that's two to one in favour of the ibis. :D
(I reckon that little lion head in the hieroglyphs is wrong, though.)
(For some reason, this image got a bunch of views from lj. Your guess is as good as mine.)
As you may recall, I was puzzled by the mismatch between a traveller's description of the figure as having an ibis head, and the vulture-headed drawing in Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique.
But here's the same figure, this time from Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie:
So that's two to one in favour of the ibis. :D
(I reckon that little lion head in the hieroglyphs is wrong, though.)
