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One of the first treasures excavated at the cemetery of Minet el-Beida was an ivory cosmetic box from a tomb containing Mycenaean artifacts. On the box’s cover, pictured here, a smiling goddess, sometimes called the “mistress of the animals,” offers sheaves of corn to two male goats. She wears a richly sculpted Cretan-Mycenaean skirt and Asiatic headdress.