Statue Of Goddess Sekhmet
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Statue Of Goddess Sekhmet
Catalog Number RC-1605Object Name Standing Sekhmet
Description Pharaoh Amenhotep III ordered that up to 730 images of the goddess Sekhmet be created and installed in his mortuary temple to beseech her healing help for his illnesses. The images were later moved to Karnak, and this is presumed to be one of them. In her right hand Sekhmet holds an ankh; in the left, a lotus.
Date 1390-1352 BCE
Culture Egyptian
Period New Kingdom
Dynasty 18TH
Type of Object Sculpture New Kingdom
Dimension Details – Objects 81 X 31.2 X 24.9 CMS
Material Gabbro Porphyry
Link https://egyptianmuseum.catalogaccess.com/objects/1384
Photographed Mohamed Abdelaziz, Brooke Morey, Celia Pearl Lober
Modeler Mohamed Abdelaziz