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.
Statue of a seated figure with a lioness head, likely representing a deity.
The image depicts a statue of a seated figure with the body of a human and the head of a lioness. The figure is adorned with a tripartite wig and a dress, seated on a throne. This piece is likely a religious artifact, with smooth carving and attention to detail in the depiction of the lioness features. The style is typical of divine representations in ancient Egyptian art.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Sekhmet
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247747 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.8.7 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544489 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.
- 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.