Two figures of goddess qbH Hwt

<!--<!--This collection of hardwood figures buried with Tutankhamen; about 35 statues in total were found divided between the antechamber, burial chamber and the treasury. Seven of them represent the king himself while the others include a strange group of divinities or maybe representing the king himself in the form of those divinities maybe to acquire their blessing. These statues were mostly gilded or black in color, both color are associated with regeneration and rebirth. They were wrapped in linen shawls with the manufacture date of the 3rd year of Akhenaton’s reign.

The greater number was recovered from the treasury where they had been crammed into 22 double door shrines of black resin coated wood mounted on sleds and with sloping roofs. The doors of only one of those shrines had been opened by tomb robbers while the seals of the remainder had survived untouched since king Tut’s funeral.

Description:

These two serpent figures were found in the treasury. qbH Hwt was the goddess of freshness or fresh air and the mountain of El Quorna in the west bank of Thebes. She was the daughter of god Anubis. She was considered to have an important role in the mummification with her father as she gives water to the deceased while he awaits the mummification process to be completed

Her name in ancient Egyptian means the cooling water or offering libation. She was considered to be the goddess of freshness and purification

She was represented as a woman with a snakehead or a complete snake with stars on her body. A rare representation shows her as an ostrich thus the connection with goddess mAat.

In this statue, she is represented in the form of a serpent standing on the imntyt sign of the west probably with funerary association or because she was the goddess of El Quorna in the west bank. There is a representation of a feather at the back of the goddess, which probably symbolizes the fresh air or maybe connected with goddess mAat. On the pedestal there is a representation of the titles of the king Tutankhamen.

The back color of the shrines might indicate death or Anubis or the back land