LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE LION-HEADED GODDESS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
Striding forward with her left leg advanced upon a thin integral plinth before an obelisk, her arms at her sides, her tightly-fitted sheath falling to her ankles, wearing a striated tripartite wig surmounted by a uraeus-fronted solar disk, with carefully incised details, including her broad collar, armlets, bracelets, nipples and the flame-like locks of her mane
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) high

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with Mathias Komor, New York, 1969.

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G. Max Bernheimer

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Without an identifying inscription, it is impossible to know which lion-headed goddess is represented, although Wadjet and Sekhmet are the most likely possibilities. For a related example see no. 42 in Schoske and Wildung, Gott und Götter im Altem Ägypten.