Statuette of Sekhmet (664–525 BCE): Art, History and Details

Statuette of Sekhmet (664–525 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The lion-headed goddess Sekhmet strides forward wearing a long, tight-fitting dress and striated wig indicating her divine nature. Behind her is an obelisk that is hollow and originally open at the bottom. Her left hand would have held an attribute such as a staff, which is now lost.

Object facts

• Title: Statuette of Sekhmet
• Date: 664–525 BCE
• Culture: Egypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26 or later
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze, figure solid cast, obelisk hollow cast
• Dimensions: Overall: 20.4 x 4.6 x 12.6 cm (8 1/16 x 1 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
• Collection: Egypt - Late Period
• Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Accession number: 1940.669

Collection credit

Bequest of James Parmelee

Further reading listed by the museum

• Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999

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