Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet
Description
Granodiorite
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 black stone statue of a seated deity with a lioness's head, likely Sekhmet.
The artifact is a finely carved black stone statue depicting a seated deity with a lioness's head, characteristic of the goddess Sekhmet. The figure is seated on a block-like throne and wears a sun disk headdress, a typical attribute of this goddess. The sculpture is of notable craftsmanship, with detailed features and smooth surfaces typical of New Kingdom art.
religious
New Kingdom
excellent
Deities
Sekhmet
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247752 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.8.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544484 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.