CHAP. XIII. DRESS OF ATHOR. 391 



name of Tentyris may have signified the abode of 

 Athor, and have been corrupted from Tei-u-atlior, 

 or Tynatyr, to Tentyra. 



She is generally represented as a female with 

 a head-dress surmounted witli long horns*, and a 

 solar disk ; and between the horns of the spotted 

 Cow, her emblem, are the same disk and two fea- 

 thers. She sometimes bears on her head a perch, 

 upon which is seated a hawk, with an ostrich fea- 

 ther before it, being the head-dress of the Genius 

 or Goddess of the West. She is then in the cha- 

 racter of president of the Western Mountain, and 

 in an office particularly connected with the dead. 



In temples of a Ptolemaic epoch, Athor is often 

 represented with the long feathers in addition to 

 the horns and globe ; but this is rarely the case 

 on monuments of early Pharaonic date, where that 

 head-dress is appropriated to the Queens, and only 

 given to Athor when under the form of a Cow. 



The Persea was sacred to her, as the Sycomore 

 to Netpe ; and in the funereal subjects of the 

 Theban tombs, she is seen performing the same 

 office to the deceased and his friends, as that 

 Goddess, — giving them the fruit and drink of 

 heaven. But the title " Lady of Plet," bestowed on 

 Athor at Thebes, Memphis, and other places, ap- 

 pears to signify " Lady of the tree," and not exclu- 

 sively " of the Persea ;" the same being applied to 

 Net})e, to whom the Sycomore was sacred. 



That the Persea and Peach were often con- 



* The fi|^uro 1. of Part 2. of Plate 3(i. «. is t'roiii a Ptolemaic temple. 



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