Statuette of Wadjet or Sekhmet
Late Period, Dynasty 26 (664–525 BCE)
- Medium
- Copper alloy
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 14.5 × 4.5 × 3 cm (5 3/4 × 1 1/4 × 1 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Africa
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This seated, lion-headed goddess wears a large sun disk with a serpent whose body trails over the top of her head. Showing remarkable ingenuity, the artists who made this piece ensured the lioness's locks kept with Egyptian fashion. Her traditional wig's front tresses emerge from the ruff of her mane.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
