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SM S119. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Justin Piperger
The Goddess Sekhmet
XVIIIth or XIXth Dynasty
Bronze, cast solid
Height: 24.3cm
Museum number: S119
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 19
Not on display
Curatorial note
A figure of the goddess Sekhmet with a lioness head, standing, holding a papyrus-headed staff. Headdress: wig with lappets over the shoulders, circular crown with uraeus (cobra) in front; from the crown rise two pinion-feathers and two horns with the disc of the sun between them.
Provenance
Unrecorded; in Soane's collection by c.1826 as it appears in a woodcut vignette of small Egyptian items published in John Britton, Union of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, 1827, p.31.
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