Bat was an early cow-headed goddess whose iconography was subsumed by Hathor in the Middle Kingdom. Bat amulets are rare1
Gold2 H 1.0, W 0.8
Old Kingdom
to First Intermediate
Period © 2002 Musée
du Louvre/Christian
Décamps #E 32424
Detail of a gold
amuletic bangle
H of Bat 2.2
Middle Kingdom
© The Trustees of the
British Museum
#EA24787
Gold amuletic plaquette
with two bounded lotus flowers
L 4.3, H 2.7, T 0.1 Undated
© 2002 Musée du Louvre/
Christian Décamps #E 12978 F
References
1None, Unpublished amulets
2Erroneously described in #E 32424, see in: Lacovara P & Markowitz Y J, edited by D’Auria S. Jewels of the Nile, Ancient Egyptian treasures from the Worcester Art Museum, 2022, pp. 138-139 and p. 207