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80- TH E N E W-Y ORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY Figs, ioahdii. LIGHT-BLUE, FAIENCE AMULET REPRESENTING SHU WITH ARMS RAISED TO SUPPORT THE SKY normal man, but is grotesquely bestial and thus in accord with the head. One conception of Hathor is outside the usual scheme; in it she has a beautiful human face, which yet by its unusual breadth, mild expression, and cow's ears suggests the animal associated with her. Bes was represented regularly, Hathor often, in these ways. Isolated instances of a less ingenuous art also occur, as in a recently published13 bronze statuette of Amon with ram's head—not, however, the unaltered ram's head, but one with human eyes and ears and with temples and cheeks modeled in human semblance. Divinities in bird form seldom were represented flying, rather, their normal attitude was with wings drooping in protection over their human protege, who was usually the king. Occasionally to figures of divinities otherwise in human form was given the addition of wings to their arms and the vulture's body feathers and tail to their backs. Isis stands thus in Figs. 5 and 6 conceived protecting her human devotee just as she once faithfully guarded Osiris. But even the gods at times required protection. Isis' need, as she reared 13 Zeitschrift fur die agyptische Sprache, Vol. 54 (1918) pp. 746°.