Egyptian Faience Figure of Sekhmet with Hieroglyphs, c. 600 B.C.

(Faience Sekhmet)

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Item No.
35.37578
Culture
Egypt, c. 600 B.C. 
Item Details.
Standing, arms by her sides, wearing tight fitting dress, tripartide wig, a Uraeus over her head. On the back a vertical bar with engraved hieroglyphs with the traditional dedication “Words spoken by Sekhmet, made for the true of voice”.
The lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, thought to be the wife of Ptah and mother of Nefertem She was associated with war and retribution and was said to use arrows to pierce her enemies with fire, her breath being the hot desert wind as her body took on the glare of the midday sun. Being mother of Nefertem, who himself was a healing god, gives her a more protective side that manifested itself in her aspect of goddess of healing and surgery.

Provenance: J. Claessen, Bladel, Holland. Collected before 1970.

Size
7.9 cm H - 3 1/8 inches
Material
Faience 
Condition
Intact 
Categories
• Egyptian Faience
Price.
US$ 3000
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