Lot 230
230
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
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From the Temple of Mut in Karnak. This head comes from one of over six hundred statues of the goddess which lined the Mut temple built under Amenophis III, the remains of which are still visible today. Sekhmet, the Memphite goddess of destruction, became identified with the Theban goddess and consort of Amun, Mut, amalgamating the political centre of Memphis with the spiritual capital of Thebes during Amenophis III's reign
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END OF MORNING SESSION

Lot Essay

Cf. A. M. Lythgoe, Statues of the Goddess Sekhmet, B.M.M.A., XIV, October 1919, part II; Les statues thebaines de las deesse Sekhmet, Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte, 1920, XIX, pp. 178-207; Porter and Moss, Topographical Bibliographs, Oxford, 1964, II pp. 262-268; J. Yoyotte, Une Monumentale litanie de granit: les Sekhmet d'Amenophis III et la conjuration permanente de la deesse dangereuse, Bulletin de las Societié Française d'Egyptologie, 1980, pp. 46-75, nos 87-88

Cf. British Museum EA41, EA519, EA520, EA531, for similar rectangular recessed niches on the head

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