This statue of the Sekhmet is one of many diorite sculptures dedicated to the powerful goddess. Sekhmet is portrayed with a dual personality; she has the body of a woman and a lion’s head. This statue is particularly interesting, however, by virtue of the artist’s great skill in blending the lion’s features with those of a woman; the lions mane morphs into human hair, and Sekhmet wears a dress down to her ankles. Most notably, she sits beneath the solar disk and uraeus-cobra and wields an ankh in her left hand.
