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554 COW AND CALF MOTIVE
of the ' impaled triangle' symbol is seen in the field, and this recur
a parallel type■ of a lion and cub.'
From its long history the type itself has a special importance.2 Tl
traditional scheme of the cow suckling its calf goes back, on Eovnti
monuments, to the Old Empire/ It reappears among the Middle Empir
sepulchral reliefs of Beni Hasan, and from the XVIIIth Dynasty onwards
supplies a hieroglyphic sign with the sense of ' be joyful V* The o-r0un
is engraved with other kine, amidst a papyrus thicket, on a bronze bowl
belonging to the close of the reign of Amenhotep III or the first years
of Amenhotep IV.
Egyptian From beginning to end, however, the Egyptian versions are little more
schema- than pictographs, schematically recording a certain phase in a cow's career.
t10. The sketch last referred to, though a little more lively, belongs to a time
when—as is well illustrated by the gambolling calves of the Tell-el-Amarna
wall-paintings and the galloping ox of the earlier dagger-blade—Minoan Art
had already begun to react on the land of the Pharaohs.
Religious Generally speaking, in Egypt, throughout, the Cow and Calf motive had
tUmof~ Deen little more than genre—though it is probable that the formal type had
Mmoan reached Crete, as it did the Syrian coastlancls, from that source. That, from
the Minoan point of view, however, it had also a religious reference might
in itself be gathered from the occurrence of the faience reliefs in the Temple
Repositories, and, as already shown, there are reasons for supposing that in
this respect the Palace cult had a direct relation to that of the Delta Goddess
Wazet, a form of Hathor, whose symbol was the papyrus wand.
So, too, already on a Syrian cylinder of an earlier class,5 we have this
motive—which is not Chaldaean—taken over in conventional EgyP™n
shape as a religious adjunct. It appears as an inset, behind a figure
' See below, p. 559, Fig. 522*. of Beni Hasan(P. E. Newberry, BeniBasml^
- Illustrative materials regarding the Cow PL VII, second register)- In the latter examp^
and Calf motive, to which I am indebted, to be more fully illustrated shortly by 1 '■
have been collected by Longperier, CEuvres, i. Garis Davis, the cow also suckles
166 : F. Poulsen, Der Orient mid die frith- child. , .<,;.
gricdisde Kumt, 21, 29, 55; C. Watzinger ' Erman-Grapow, Wtrterlmcn a. v
Antike Plastik, IV. Ame/mig, sum 60. Geburts- sdienSfraclu,p.i 1; Alan H.Gardl"er' .'^mJie
toft p. 264 and notes; and Thureau-Dangin <Jra»«»<7r,p.45oE(mamn>als)5.1' • ^
in Anion Task, pp. 124-6. Moret (cited by Thureau-Dangin' ™D),msl),
' It appears in the Vth Dynasty Tombs of TasA, p. 124) points out that the XI y((joes
Anta (Petrie, Deshasheh, PI. V, third register), hieroglyph referred to in the Wirt" ^
and of Ptahhetep (Davis, Mastaba of I'tahhetep not really correspond, as the c°w jsie,
mid Akhetheiep II, PI. XVII, second register). ' ■ Ward, Tlie Seal Cylinders of H «
It is also found in the Middle Empire Tombs No. 415, pp. 157, ' 5$-
type
of the ' impaled triangle' symbol is seen in the field, and this recur
a parallel type■ of a lion and cub.'
From its long history the type itself has a special importance.2 Tl
traditional scheme of the cow suckling its calf goes back, on Eovnti
monuments, to the Old Empire/ It reappears among the Middle Empir
sepulchral reliefs of Beni Hasan, and from the XVIIIth Dynasty onwards
supplies a hieroglyphic sign with the sense of ' be joyful V* The o-r0un
is engraved with other kine, amidst a papyrus thicket, on a bronze bowl
belonging to the close of the reign of Amenhotep III or the first years
of Amenhotep IV.
Egyptian From beginning to end, however, the Egyptian versions are little more
schema- than pictographs, schematically recording a certain phase in a cow's career.
t10. The sketch last referred to, though a little more lively, belongs to a time
when—as is well illustrated by the gambolling calves of the Tell-el-Amarna
wall-paintings and the galloping ox of the earlier dagger-blade—Minoan Art
had already begun to react on the land of the Pharaohs.
Religious Generally speaking, in Egypt, throughout, the Cow and Calf motive had
tUmof~ Deen little more than genre—though it is probable that the formal type had
Mmoan reached Crete, as it did the Syrian coastlancls, from that source. That, from
the Minoan point of view, however, it had also a religious reference might
in itself be gathered from the occurrence of the faience reliefs in the Temple
Repositories, and, as already shown, there are reasons for supposing that in
this respect the Palace cult had a direct relation to that of the Delta Goddess
Wazet, a form of Hathor, whose symbol was the papyrus wand.
So, too, already on a Syrian cylinder of an earlier class,5 we have this
motive—which is not Chaldaean—taken over in conventional EgyP™n
shape as a religious adjunct. It appears as an inset, behind a figure
' See below, p. 559, Fig. 522*. of Beni Hasan(P. E. Newberry, BeniBasml^
- Illustrative materials regarding the Cow PL VII, second register)- In the latter examp^
and Calf motive, to which I am indebted, to be more fully illustrated shortly by 1 '■
have been collected by Longperier, CEuvres, i. Garis Davis, the cow also suckles
166 : F. Poulsen, Der Orient mid die frith- child. , .<,;.
gricdisde Kumt, 21, 29, 55; C. Watzinger ' Erman-Grapow, Wtrterlmcn a. v
Antike Plastik, IV. Ame/mig, sum 60. Geburts- sdienSfraclu,p.i 1; Alan H.Gardl"er' .'^mJie
toft p. 264 and notes; and Thureau-Dangin <Jra»«»<7r,p.45oE(mamn>als)5.1' • ^
in Anion Task, pp. 124-6. Moret (cited by Thureau-Dangin' ™D),msl),
' It appears in the Vth Dynasty Tombs of TasA, p. 124) points out that the XI y((joes
Anta (Petrie, Deshasheh, PI. V, third register), hieroglyph referred to in the Wirt" ^
and of Ptahhetep (Davis, Mastaba of I'tahhetep not really correspond, as the c°w jsie,
mid Akhetheiep II, PI. XVII, second register). ' ■ Ward, Tlie Seal Cylinders of H «
It is also found in the Middle Empire Tombs No. 415, pp. 157, ' 5$-
type