⛩Two Colossal Statues of Sekhmet / Metropolitan Museum

🔹 Dynasty 18, reign of King Amenhotep III (circa 1390-1353 BC)
Made of diorite stone
🔹 Sekhmet means “powerful and influential, symbol of war, and violent storms.”
A picture of a woman sitting, holding in her right hand the ankh of life
🔹 Sekhmet sitting, her body is that of a young woman with a lion’s head wearing anklets, bracelets and a necklace
🔹 Sekhmet wears the sun disk on her headdress, in front of which the royal uraeus and long wigs are a symbol of a male lion, a symbol of strength.
🔹 Discovered in Karnak Temple. 1915 AD

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