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Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet

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Description

Statue, Sakhmet. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Granodiorite. H. 213.4 × W. 50.8 × D. 75.6 cm, 1036.9 kg (84 × 20 × 29 3/4 in., 2286 lb.). From: Karnak, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Goddess. Credit: Gift of Henry Walters, 1915.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A standing, human-headed Egyptian statue shown in profile, wearing a patterned headdress and holding a staff-like object at the side.

The image shows a tall, seated/standing-format granite-like (dark, speckled) statue of a female or feminine-presenting deity figure. The figure has a human/partial animal head with a broad headdress and wears a long, close-fitting garment. A cylindrical or staff-like implement is held against the lower body on the figure’s right side (viewer’s left/right unclear due to angle). The face has defined eyes and a small mouth; the headdress includes a projecting element to the top. The statue is shown against a light stone wall. No clear inscriptions, cartouches, or readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are visible. No explicit bronze/gold inlays are visible in this image; the surface appears stone-polished with visible abrasions and speckling consistent with the catalogue’s stated stone. The object appears intact overall, though surface wear is evident.

religious New Kingdom (as per catalogue; image does not provide enough diagnostic inscription to refine) good
Deities Sakhmet (attribution per catalogue; not directly verifiable from image alone)
Materials stone (granodiorite per catalogue)

Connections

Found at Karnak

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116247745 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.8.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544486 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.