# Statuette of Wadjet or Sekhmet

- By: Ancient Egyptian
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/135682)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/cf41d5df-430e-b7d5-b08b-799eb5023b65/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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