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The frontal view of faces is rare in Egyptian low relief or painting
Relief showing Front view
HR, Heiroglyph for face
Qetesh
Stele featuring Egyptian and foreign gods: Min (Egypt) Qetesh (Syria), Resheph (Canaanite/Egypt)
[Qetesh wearing the headdress of Hathor]
In the Qetesh stele, she is represented as a frontal nude standing on a lion between Min of Egypt and the Canaanite warrior god Resheph. She is holding snakes in one hand and a lotus flower in the other as symbols of creation. In Egyptian iconography Resheph is depicted wearing the crown of Upper Egypt (White Crown), In Ugarit, Resheph was identified with Nergal, in Idalion, Cyprus, with Apollo.
Qetesh (Semitic QDŠ "holy" (Kodesh, Qodesh); also Kadesh) was a Sumerian goddess adopted into Egyptian mythology from the Canaanite religion, popular during New Kingdom. Resheph became popular in Egypt under Amenhotep II (18th dynasty), where he served as god of horses and chariots.
She is associated with Anat, Astarte, and Asherah. She also has elements associated with the goddesses of Myceneae, the Minoans of Crete, and certain Kassite goddesses of the metals trade in Tin, Copper and Bronze between Lothal and Dilmun.
Qudshu-Astarte-Anat is a representation of a single goddess who is a combination of three goddesses: Qetesh (Athirat "Asherah"), Astarte, and Anat. It was a common practice for Canaanites and Egyptians to merge different deities through a process of synchronization, thereby, turning them into one single entity. The "Triple-Goddess Stone", that was once owned by Winchester College, shows the goddess Qetesh with the inscription "Qudshu-Astarte-Anat", showing their association as being one goddess, and Qetesh (Qudshu) in place of Athirat. Religious scholar Saul M. Olyan (author of Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel), calls the representation on the Qudshu-Astarte-Anat plaque "a triple-fusion hypostasis", and considers Qudshu to be an epithet of Athirat by a process of elimination, for Astarte and Anat appear after Qudshu in the inscription.
She is called "Mistress of All the Gods", "Lady of the Stars of Heaven", "Beloved of Ptah", "Great of magic, mistress of the stars", and "Eye of Ra, without her equal".Qadshu is also used as an epithet of Athirat, the Great Mother Goddess of the Canaanites
Qetesh is the name given to the Goa'uld that once possessed Vala Mal Doran, a recurring and then regular character in Seasons 9 and 10, respectively of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.
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The Metternich Stela, otherwise known as the Magical Stela, dates from the reign of Pharaoh Nectanebo II (380–343 B.C.) of the 30th Dynasty of Egypt. The kings of Dynasty 30 were the last native Egyptian rulers. The stela is made of Greywacke and measures: height - 2 ft. 8.9 in., width - 13.2 in., and depth - 5.7 in. It is generally considered to be the finest and most elaborate example of Egyptian magical stelae. The stela was made by an Egyptian priest named Esatum and was originally erected in a necropolis of sacred bulls. In 1828, the stela was presented by the Egyptian Khedive, Muhammad Ali, to the Chancellor of the Austrian Empire, Prince Metternich. The stela remained in the Metternich family until shortly before its purchase by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1950.
Nectanebo II was the last indigenous king of ancient Egypt. He struggled valiantly against the Persian empire only to be defeated in the end. After the lost battle, he fled to Upper Egypt, and nothing is known about his end.
^^^^ this is high relief however not as flat
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Rules of Frontality: Side view of head. Front view of eye (not looking straight ahead). Front view of shoulders and torso. Side view of hip. Side view of: arms, legs, feet. Hand, feet and legs are large compare of the rest of the body.
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I guess lyinass still hasn't figured out that artistic conventions are not followed all the time 100%, even though we've told her this many times before.
Note for example the convention that women are painted yellow or lighter than men. Here too this convention has many exceptions found in art.
As for the face hieroglyph, it is a glyph and particularly for the 'face' so of course it is going to be depicted in full frontal form. The goddess Qetesh is traditionally depicted in full frontal form in her native Levantine lands, that the Egyptians chose to honor this tradition as part of her worship is nothing special. Posts: 26307 | From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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