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This arm probably came from one of the many seated statues of Sekhmet found in the Temple of Mut at Karnak. It is thought that the 730 such figures - two for each day of the year - constituted a sculptural version of the double litany of names pronounced each day for the goddess. She had various epithets including "the flame of Mut," but was also associated with Hathor, see pp. 225-226 in Kozloff and Bryan, Egypt's Dazzling Sun. For a similar example, but for the presence of an arm-band, lacking here, see no. 220, p. 140 in Roveri, ed., Egyptian Civilization, Monumental Art.