Neith - San Jose, CA - Epic Beings and Creatures 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."

Time Period: Ancient Approximate Date of Epic Period: 2000 BC Epic Type: Religous Exhibit Type: Figure, Statue, 3D Art

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