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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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