Sistrum

Sacred rattle of Hathor — shaken to pacify the goddess and drive off evil; the handle often bears Hathor's cow-eared face.

Tradition: egyptian · Period: Old Kingdom (naos-sistrum); later Isis cult across the Roman world · Unicode: U+133E3

Figures: Hathor · Isis · Bastet

Sources

• Sistrum

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