Lady of Dendera

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Lady of Dendera is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, highlighting her role as the principal deity of the Dendera temple complex and patroness of love, music, and motherhood.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Lady of Dendera canonical 2
Hathor of Dendera 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf epithet
religious title
appliedToDeity Hathor
associatedFestival Beautiful Feast of the Valley (via Hathor)
New Year festival at Dendera
associatedTemple Dendera Temple Complex
cultCenterFeature Great Temple of Hathor at Dendera
zodiac ceiling of Dendera
linked to: zodiac of Dendera
culture ancient Egyptian religion
equivalentOrLinkedDeity Aphrodite (Greco-Egyptian identification of Hathor)
linked to: Aphrodite

Venus (Roman identification of Hathor)
linked to: Venus Felix
hasAspectOf goddess of love
goddess of motherhood
goddess of music
sky goddess
solar goddess
honorificRole patroness of beauty
patroness of fertility
patroness of joy
patroness of love
patroness of motherhood
patroness of music
iconographicAssociation cow-eared woman
menat necklace
sistrum
woman with cow horns and solar disk
languageOfName ancient Egyptian
linkedDeityAspect Eye of Ra
consort of Horus of Edfu (via Hathor)
principalDeityOf Dendera Temple Complex
refersTo Hathor
region Dendera, Qena Governorate, Egypt
linked to: Dendera
religiousFunction protector of childbirth
protector of fertility
protector of women
religiousSphere inebriation and festivity
love and sexuality
maternal care
music and dance
veneratedIn New Kingdom
Ptolemaic period
linked to: Ptolemaic Kingdom

Roman period in Egypt
worshipCenter Dendera
Upper Egypt
worshipType local cult
state cult

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hathor epithet Lady of Dendera
Iunet-ta-netert cultTitleOfHathor Lady of Dendera
Temple of Hathor associatedWithDeity Hathor of Dendera
linked to: Lady of Dendera