Standing Lion-Headed Goddess
Description
Caption: Standing Lion-Headed Goddess, 664–343 B.C.E.. Faience, overall: 3 1/4 x 13/16 x 7/8 in. (8.3 x 2 x 2.3 cm) Back pillar: 5/16 x 1/4 in. (0.8 x 0.6 cm) mount (display dims when mounted; Divine Felines-2015): 3 3/8 x 7/8 x 5/8 in. (8.6 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.943E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A statuette depicting a lioness-headed goddess.
This artifact is a small blue faience statuette representing a lioness-headed goddess, likely Sekhmet, standing in a striding pose. The figure is adorned with a sun disk and uraeus on her head, common symbols associated with her. The craftsmanship is indicative of Egyptian sculpture, with stylized features typical of divine representations.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.943E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117525 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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