4200 Year Old Art in the Temple of Hathor

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4200 Year Old Art in the Temple of Hathor

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Re: 4200 Year Old Art in the Temple of Hathor

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Your title appears somewhat misleading. The Temple itself may be 4200 years old, but the colored artwork certainly is not. Cleopatra et al. lived merely 2000 years ago.
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Hathor = Baalath/Sapd

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Stanley A. Cook, The religion of ancient Palestine in the light of archaeology [1925], p.119:

A {female} deity Saphon (or the like) is to be found in the place Baal-Zephon on the Eastern Delta (Exodus 14:2); while at Memphis a corresponding Baalath was worshipped.1 Her cult is connected with that of the solar god Sopdu, who was known as ‘Lord of the East and of the Asiatics’, and whose city and temple probably survive in the modern Saft, a few miles south-east of Bubastis. It is the (Pi-) Sopdu, the ‘Gate of the East’ of Ashurbanipal's day. At Serabit the sanctuary and outbuildings of Sopdu run along the southern side of the longer buildings of Hathor; and Petrie suggests that his symbol was identified with the goddess, since at Elephantine and Abydos she herself is called Sapd.2 A Baal-Sapun is named with Baal-Shamim (the sky-god) and Baal malagie (? the salt sea: the Lord My King?) in Esarhaddon's treaty with Tyre {c.675 BC}; and the name is given to a land rich in copper-mines, north of Phoenicia - cf. the regional god Baal Lebanon.

2 Sinai, p. 192; cf. Lina Eckenstein, Sinai, pp. 25 sq., 55. On points of contact between Yahu and Sapdu, see Furlani, Giornale d. Soc. Asiat. Ital., 1925, pp. 1 sqq. If Pi-Sapdu is the later cf, xxxxxx (Muller), note the late Edomite-ldumean god Kos, and the presence of ldumaeans with names compound with Kos in Memphis (seep. 203).

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