Figure of the idol Bat surrounded by
stars. It is an early depiction of the celestial goddess in her bovine aspect.
Sirius-Sothis, the dog star, is another for of Isis-Hathor who also appears in
the Zodiac of Dendera (now in the Louvre, Paris). Dendera was a cow lying in the
solar barque, with a huge moon between her horns.
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