Image code: 21306

Triad of Mycerinus

The statuary group is depicted standing on a base and leaning against a large back slab. It depicts, in the centre, the pharaoh Mycerinus, incandescent and wearing a white crown, flanked on his right by the goddess Hathor and on his left by a female personification of the Cynopolitan nomo, the seventeenth administrative district of Upper Egypt; the ruler has a beard, a symbol of divinity, and wears a pleated ahendyt skirt with a wide smooth belt, holding two cylinders; the goddess Hathor has the sun disk between cow horns, a zoomorphic manifestation of the goddess, she wears a tunic, in her hand she clutches the shen sign symbolising eternity; the other female figure has a banner on her head with the zoomorphic image of the god Anubis, which is the emblem of the Cynopolitan nomo; at the bottom hieroglyphics with the name of the goddess and the pharaoh.

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