Source: Excerpt, British Museum website

Gazelles

    Gazelles, a kind of antelope, were devoted to Anuket, a goddess of the cataracts. The goddess, generally depicted in human form, was shown on one ostracon in the form of a gazelle and given the titles of Mistress of the Skies and Princess of the Gods.
    Reshef, a Middle Eastern god worshipped in Egypt since the 18th dynasty, had a gazelle's head on the front of his crown instead of an uraeus.
 
    Like other antelopes, gazelles were animals belonging to the desert god Seth and hunted.

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