Editing Hesat (section)

==Artistic representations==
While there are not many images of Hesat that are recorded and published, there are a few representations on pieces that belong to major museums worldwide. The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] has in its collection ''Scarab with the Representation of Hathor as a Cow''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/553356?searchField=All&amp;sortBy=relevance&amp;ft=hesat&amp;offset=0&amp;rpp=20&amp;pos=1|title=Scarab with the Representation of Hathor as Cow|last=Metropolitan Museum of Art staff member|website=www.metmuseum.org|access-date=2018-12-03}}</ref> The hieroglyphs on this late period piece read ḥȜst or ḥsȜt determined with a recumbent cow with the following hieroglyphs:<hiero>
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</hiero>This spelling of her name is using [[Substitution cipher|cryptographic substitution]], which became established in the New Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth|last=Roberson|first=Joshua Aaron|date=2014-06-23|publisher=Lockwood Press|isbn=9781937040253|pages=93|doi = 10.2307/j.ctvvncvt}}</ref> Traditionally phonetic spellings of Hesat's name from earlier periods were usually written as follows:<ref>{{Cite book|title=A concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian|last=Faulkner|first=Raymond O.|author-link=Raymond O. Faulkner|date=1962|publisher=[[Griffith Institute]]|isbn=9780900416323|location=Oxford|pages=177|oclc=4466599}}</ref><hiero>
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