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 statue of a seated lion-headed figure, likely representing a deity.
The artifact is a stone statue depicting a seated figure with a lion's head, suggestive of the goddess Sekhmet. The figure is shown in a traditional seated posture on a throne. The style and craftsmanship indicate fine detailing in the facial features and attire, typical of Egyptian deity representations, along with a long, tripartite wig and a circular headdress.
religious
New Kingdom
excellent
Deities
Sekhmet
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247746 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.8.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544485 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.