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Hathor|ˈhɑːθə(r)|
Also Athor.
[ad. Gr. Ἁθώρ, f. Egypt. Ḥet-Ḥerh the house above, or Ḥet-Ḥeru house of Horus.]
The name of an Egyptian divinity, the goddess of love, often represented with the head or ears of a cow, used attrib. or Comb. to designate a type of column surmounted by a capital on which are carved one or more representations of the head of Hathor. So Hathoric |həˈθɒrɪk|, a. Hence Hathoˈresque a., in the style of a Hathor figure.
1786tr. C. E. Savary's Lett. on Egypt II. xlviii. 351 Athor, or the night, in the opinion of the Egyptian priests, represented the darkness which enveloped the chaos before the creation. 1851W. S. W. Vaux Handbk. Antiq. B.M. 355 The Venus of the Egyptians was called Athor, Hathor, or Athyr, and her name implied the abode of Horus. 1857J. G. Wilkinson Egyptians 273 His hair is that of the milky way..his eyes, the symbolical eyes of Athor. 1896W. M. F. Petrie Koptos i. 4/2 Below the scene is a frieze of dad signs alternating with figures, the lower parts of which are like the Isiac girdle tie, while above they have the human Hathor head, with cows' ears and horns... They seem as if they might be copies of some primitive Hathor idol. 1901R. Sturgis Dict. Archit. I. 854/2 The columns are easily divisible into a few general types, such as the single and the clustered lotus-bud, the campaniform, the palm-capped, and the Hathor-headed. Ibid. II. 366/2 Hathoric, having to do with the Egyptian goddess Hathor. 1934E. Pound Eleven New Cantos xxxix. 44 When Hathor was bound in that box afloat on the sea wave. 1960Times 7 Mar. 8/3 A handsome jewelry box with an ivory inlay of Hathor beads. 1962D. Harden Phoenicians xiii. 198 A peculiar multiple vase for offerings has..a Hathoresque head above a long-horned cow's head. |