A Painted Votive Textile, late 18th Dynasty, circa 1390-1292 B.C.

painted with three priests and five female worshippers, some carrying papyrus stems, arranged in two registers before the Hathor Cow standing on a high pedestal, the goddess wearing a menat necklace and crown composed of a sun-disk surmounted by ostrich plumes, columns of inscription above each figure, a frieze of lotus petals above the scene.

from the 11th Dynasty temple at Deir el-Bahri, excavated by Edouard Naville on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Fund between 1894 and 1911
estate of Marilyn Kaytor, New York, acquired in the 1960s

Edouard Naville, H.R. Hall, and C.T. Currelly, The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari, part III, London, 1913, pl, XXXI, 2 (line drawing)
Geraldine Pinch, Votive Offerings to Hathor, Oxford, 1993, p. 104, Cat. 2.3
Klaus Parlasca, Mumienporträts und verwandte Denkmäler, Wiesbaden, 1966, p. 154, n. 15

losses as shown, colors somewhat faded
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For related examples see Sue d'Auria, "Three Painted Textiles in the Collection of the Boston Athenaeum," Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, Boston, 1996, pp. 169-176, figs. 1-3.

Marylin Kaytor was a food editor at Look Magazine, a friend of Andy Warhol's, and the author of 21: The Life and Times of New York's Favorite Club (1975).