Beatrice Teissier on Hathor Being Associated with the Sun

  

The Pharaoh’s most frequent association on Syro-Levantine seals is with an Egyptian goddess, whose cow’s horns and solar disc head-dress is based on that of Hathor. (Beatrice Teissier, Egyptian Iconography on Syro-Palestinian Cylinder Seals of the Middle Bronze Age [Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis Series Archaeologica 11; Fribourg, Switzerland: University Press Fribourg, 1996], 50)