This plaque shows a woman on the birthing-chair, being assisted by two women with Hathor heads and crowns, the Hathor crown consists of two horns with the sun disk between them and tall plumes. Hathor acted as nurse and was the patroness of pregnant woman in the confinement chamber. The figures of the women are rendered in frontal view, and are nearly three-dimensional. The stone was placed, most probably by a pious person, at the temple of Hathor in Dendera.

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