left: 1. The Gerza palette. (Drawing by the author)
below left: 2. King Menkaure in the centre with Hathor, right, and the nome deity Bat, left. (Egyptian Museum, Cairo)
below right: 3. Taweret, ‘The Great One’, in amulet form, perhaps used to protect women in childbirth. (Accession number PM19. Copyright Egypt Centre, Swansea University)
4. Pottery fertility figurines. (Accession numbers EC446 and EC447. Copyright Egypt Centre, Swansea University)
5. The chapel of the Divine Adoratrice Amenirdis I at Medinet Habu. (Photograph author’s own)
6. The God’s Wife of Amun, Shepenwepet I being suckled by Hathor at the Chapel of Heqa-Djet at Karnak. (Photograph author’s own)
7. Male priests (left) and the God’s Wife of Amun, possibly Neferure (right), engaged in rituals. From Hatshepsut’s Red Chapel at Karnak. (Photograph author’s own)
8. A male harper, male and female dancers and female sistra players. From Hatshepsut’s Red Chapel at Karnak. (Photograph author’s own)
9. Isis in the form of a bird hovers over the erect phallus of the recumbent Osiris. From the temple of Seti I at Abydos. (Photograph author’s own)
10. A graffito at Wadi Hammamat. Note the monkey-like faces of the couple. (Photograph author’s own)
left: 11. A scene from the Turin Erotic Papyrus. (Drawing by the author)
below left: 12. The deity Bes at Dendera. (Photograph author’s own)
below right: 13. The colossal statue of Meritamun (consort of Rameses II) at Akhmim. The queen wears the modius and double plume. (Photograph author’s own)
right: 14. Mentuhotep II embracing his wife Sadeh. (From XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir El-Bahari II by Edouard Naville 1910)
below: 15. The rock-cut temple built by Hatshepsut to Pakhet at Speos Artemidos. (Photograph author’s own)
16. Osirid statues of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri. The queen is shown as Osiris, the ‘king of the dead’. (Photograph author’s own)
17. Cleopatra VII and her son Caesarion. She wears the sun disk with cow horns and her son, shown at smaller size, stands in front of her. From the back south wall of the temple at Dendera. (Photograph author’s own)
