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mostly-history: “ “ 1. A faience amulet of Sekhmet (after 656 BC). 2. A bronze votive statuette of Bastet (Late Period, 664 – 332 BC). ” Sekhmet stands with her hands at her sides, wearing a long sheath dress and a sun disk. Bastet wears a...

mostly-history:

1. A faience amulet of Sekhmet (after 656 BC).

2. A bronze votive statuette of Bastet (Late Period, 664 – 332 BC).

Sekhmet stands with her hands at her sides, wearing a long sheath dress and a sun disk.  Bastet wears a short-sleeved, tight-fitting dress decorated with a cross-hatched pattern, and carries an aegis in her left hand.

Sekhmet and Bastet had a dual nature, with Sekhmet being the peaceful counterpart of Bastet.  The Egyptian myth of the Eye of Re describes the goddess Hathor-Tefnut: “She rages like Sekhmet and is friendly like Bastet.”

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