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(a)(b)Figure 5.12 Detail from an offering table showing the arms of a tree goddess extending from a
tree. B. Drawing of Isis as tree goddess on a pillar in the burial chamber of Tuthmose III in Thebes,
New Kingdom, 1479– 1425, Eighteenth Dynasty.
A is from Baines, J. (2001), Fecundity Figures. Griffith Institute, Oxford. B is from Hassan, F. A. (1998),
The earliest goddesses of Egypt, in L. Goodison and C. Morris, eds., Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the
Evidence. University of Wisconsin.