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Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

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Plate 15. Models <strong>of</strong> cows, Eleventh Dynasty, ca. 2000 BCE. Courtesy <strong>of</strong> the Cairo Museum.<br />

Plate 16. Cow goddess Mehet-Weret (“Great Flood”) representing the yearly inundation <strong>of</strong> the Nile, ca. 1500 BCE. This<br />

goddess is sometimes linked to Isis.<br />

Plate 17. <strong>The</strong> cow godess Hathor, New Kindom, ca. 1500 BCE. Note the stars on her body. Hathor’s cult is attested<br />

from earliest times.

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