Neith & the 1122 Neith Asteroid - San Jose, CA - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

This sculpture is in San Jose's Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.
The placard accompanying this sculpture indicates it is made of wood and is from the Saite Period. The figure wears the red crown of Lower Egypt.
Wikipedia (visit link) adds:

"Neith ... was an early goddess in the Egyptian pantheon. She was the patron deity of Sais, where her cult was centered in the Western Nile Delta of Egypt and attested as early as the First Dynasty. The Ancient Egyptian name of this city was Zau.

Neith also was one of the three tutelary deities of the ancient Egyptian southern city of Ta-senet or Iunyt now known as Esna ..., which is located on the west bank of the River Nile, some 55 km south of Luxor, in the modern Qena Governorate."

As for the asteroid, Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:

"1122 Neith is a main belt asteroid, approximately 12 km in diameter, orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Eugène Joseph Delporte on September 17, 1928 at Uccle. Its provisional designation was 1928 SB. It was named for the Egyptian goddess of Libyan origin, Neith, goddess of the hunt and of war, believed to be the mother of the Sun.

Measurements made with the IRAS observatory give a diameter of 13.84 ± 1.46 km and a geometric albedo of 0.34 ± 0.07. By comparison, the MIPS photometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope gives a diameter of 13.81 ± 0.73 km and a geometric albedo of 0.34 ± 0.02."

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