Statue

Museum number:
5-365
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050000365
Accession number:
Acc.6
Description:
Bust of the Goddess Sekhmet - black stone Lioness Goddess- half figure. XVIII Dynasty
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Temple of Mut, Karnak, Thebes
Verbatim coll. place:
Karnak - Temple of Mut
Culture or time period:
18th Dynasty of Egypt (1550–1295 BC)
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
before 1899
Materials:
Diorite (probable materials: diorite or gabril a plutonic basalt with large mica inclusions (both biotite and muscovite) and felspars)
Person depicted:
Sekhmet (Egyptian deity)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Sekhmet
Production date:
ca. 1390-1352 BC
Accession date:
October 1, 1899
Department:
Ancient Egypt
Dimensions:
length 48.26 centimeters, width 40.64 centimeters, and height 73.66 centimeters
Comment:
A composite form, part lion/part woman, this statue is the fragmentary top half of a full figure. Sekhmet, "the powerful one," was goddess of war, violent storms, and pestilence. When she was appeased, however, her powers of destruction could be used to protect, and in this aspect she became a goddess of healing. The Pharaoh Amenhotep III erected hundreds of Sekhmet statues around the sacred lake of the Temple of Mut at Karnak.
Loans:
S1975-1976 #1: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (July 8, 1975–November 11, 1975), S1979-1980 #54: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (March 31, 1980–December 18, 1981), S1982-1983 #11: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (October 4, 1982–December 10, 1982), S1982-1983 #17: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (October 11, 1982–December 7, 1982), S1984-1985 #33: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (March 7, 1985–October 29, 1985), S1987-1988 #44: SFO Museum (June 23, 1988–August 25, 1988), S1988-1989 #7: SFO Museum (August 25, 1988–January 23, 1989), S1999-2000 #7: Frank H. McClung Museum (January 13, 2000–January 26, 2001), and S2012-2013 #7: Albany Institute of History and Art (September 1, 2013–September 17, 2021)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 8 titled Statue, accession number 5-365, described as Bust of the Goddess Sekhmet - black stone Lioness Goddess- half figure. XVIII DynastyHearst Museum object 2 of 8 titled Statue, accession number 5-365, described as Bust of the Goddess Sekhmet - black stone Lioness Goddess- half figure. XVIII DynastyHearst Museum object 3 of 8 titled Statue, accession number 5-365, described as Bust of the Goddess Sekhmet - black stone Lioness Goddess- half figure. XVIII DynastyHearst Museum object 4 of 8 titled Statue, accession number 5-365, described as Bust of the Goddess Sekhmet - black stone Lioness Goddess- half figure. XVIII DynastyHearst Museum object 5 of 8 titled Statue, accession number 5-365, described as Bust of the Goddess Sekhmet - black stone Lioness Goddess- half figure. XVIII DynastyHearst Museum object 6 of 8 titled Statue, accession number 5-365, described as Bust of the Goddess Sekhmet - black stone Lioness Goddess- half figure. XVIII DynastyHearst Museum object 7 of 8 titled Statue, accession number 5-365, described as Bust of the Goddess Sekhmet - black stone Lioness Goddess- half figure. XVIII DynastyHearst Museum object 8 of 8 titled Statue, accession number 5-365, described as Bust of the Goddess Sekhmet - black stone Lioness Goddess- half figure. XVIII Dynasty
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statue, accession number 5-365, described as Bust of the Goddess Sekhmet - black stone Lioness Goddess- half figure. XVIII DynastyDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statue, accession number 5-365, described as Bust of the Goddess Sekhmet - black stone Lioness Goddess- half figure. XVIII Dynasty

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