梅纳特与哈索的形象形成对比，将其描绘成一个女人和一头牛 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	梅纳特与哈索的形象形成对比，将其描绘成一个女人和一头牛
品名（英）	Menat counterpoise with figures of Hathor as a woman and a cow
入馆年号	1951年，51.157.2
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1390
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 16.3 厘米 (6 7/16 英寸); 宽 5 厘米 (1 15/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	menat是一种仪式项链，由连接在配重上的多串珠子组成，也称为menat，形状像钟摆。这条项链可以由女神哈托尔佩戴，也可以由与她有关联的其他人佩戴，或者她的女祭司和最终的精英女性可以将配重握在手中，摇晃珠子，发出嘎嘎作响的声音，安抚女神。仅配重本身就是哈托尔女神的神奇象征，在新王国，参观她的圣地的人都会为这位女神献上小祭坛这幅精美的透雕作品包括女神的三种表现，两侧都有充分的细节：位于menat顶部的女神头像强调了menat作为女神Hathor的恋物癖的身份，一个完全拟人化的女神形象出现在中央框架内，第三个女神像以奶牛的形式乘坐一艘轻芦苇船穿过纸莎草沼泽。顶部女神头像的特征使其被指定为阿蒙霍特普三世的统治时期。作为女神的象征，梅纳特带来了生育能力，培育了新生儿，并在死后重生。
介绍（英）	The menat is a ritual necklace, which consists of multiple strings of beads attached to a counterweight, also called a menat, shaped like a pendulum. The necklace could be worn by the goddess Hathor or by others associated with her, or her priestesses and eventually elite women could hold the counterweight in the hand to shake the beads to produce a rattling sound soothing to the goddess. The counterweight alone was a magical symbol of the goddess Hathor, and in the New Kingdom small menats were dedicated to the goddess by those visiting her sanctuaries. This fine openwork example includes three representations of the goddess, fully detailed on both sides: the goddess’s head at the top of the menat underscores the identity of the menat as a fetish of the goddess Hathor, a full anthropomorphic figure of the goddess appears inside the central frame, and a third figure of the goddess in her cow form moves through the papyrus marshes in a light reed boat. The features of the goddess head at the top allow it to be assigned to the reign of Amenhotep III. As a symbol of the goddess, the menat brought fertility, fostered the newly born and rebirth in the afterlife.