Object Number: Ha6740

Collection: World Archaeology - Egyptology

Object Name: amulet

Description: This is a dark blue faience amulet (now mostly drab brown), moulded in the form of the standing Sekhmet goddess. Facial features of a lioness are roughly moulded, and she wears a sun disc on her head. She stands holding one arm down by her side and the other holds a sceptre. One leg stands forward onto an almost rectangular base. There is a pilaster at the back. It is pierced widthways through the pilaster at the back of the head.

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