The cow-goddess
The cow, which is generally located in the
middle of the register, is one of the most important protagonists of the
scene. The goddess appears as the mother of the sun-god and also as his
protector. On a late group of hypocephali, the cow appears in a particular
iconography: the deceased lies on its back, which may refer implicitly to the
mother – son pairing and similarly, with the Celestial Cow/Mehet-weret – Re, or
Nut – Osiris relationships. (Tamás Mekis, The Hypocephalus: An Ancient
Egyptian Funerary Amulet [Archaeopress Egyptology 24; Oxford: Archaeopress
Publishing Ltd., 2020], 57)
