Goddess Maat with Goddes Hathour. 14x10 inches.Hand made, hand painted Egypt papyrus. Ancient Egyptian Art

A scene from Queen Nefertari tomb, depicting goddes Maat the goddes of justice and Hathour goddes of fertility with the famous cow horns.

Maat is one of the goddesses in the ancient Egyptian mythology that was regarded as a symbol for wisdom and justice and other moral values that help mankind to live properly. The usual depiction of her shows her as a woman with an ankh and scepter in her hand and an ostrich feather over her head. This feather over the head of Maat is regarded as a symbol of her gentleness and extreme beauty, while some people suggest that it is a symbol for her sound judgment because she was a member of the underworld court.

Hathor was often depicted as a cow bearing the sun disk between her horns, especially when shown nursing the king of of Egypt. She could also appear as a woman with the head of a cow. Her most common form, however, was a woman wearing a headdress of the horns and sun disk, often with a red or turquoise sheath dress, or a dress combining both colors.

There are many scenes in different Egyptian temples dedicated to these two famous ancient Egyptian deities Hathor and Maat.