Deir el-Bahri Shrine: Wall Relief Adaptation (details)
Hathor the Great Wild Cow of the Marshland
Queen Hatshepsut as the Horus Prince
being suckled by Hathor
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NOTES ON THE COMPUTER GRAPHICS The Great Cow figure in the computer graphic is an adaptation of the "Hathor Enshrined on Her Boat" wall relief in the Hathor shrine of Hatshepsut's Deir el-Bahri temple. The figure of Hatshepsut was adapted from a second relief in the same shrine and combined with the Great Cow to replace an indistinct depiction of the nursing Queen in the first relief.
The two pictures were combined
in Adobe Photoshop for the Mac, along with papyrus plants, a menat necklace, uraeus, head plumes, and other
details inspired by various examples of Egyptian art. The combination picture was then pasted onto a papyrus
background texture and illuminated from the bottom in Painter for the Mac. The hieroglyphic writing on the
finished adaptation is a rendition of the terms "Hathor" and "Hat-hert" with considerable artistic license
taken in the drawing and grouping of the symbols.
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