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Sekhmet was a lion goddess, whose name means "the mighty one", and she personified the aggressive aspects of other goddesses. Sekhmet was a daughter of the sun god Ra. She usually wears the sun-disc on her head. A famous myth recounts how...

This bronze fragment (with gold insoles) was part of a Menat (also Minet) necklace. On the right, a child-god, wearing a rearing cobra (uraeus) on his head stands before the goddess Mut-Sekhmet-Bastet. The child-god proffers a sistrum to...

Granite standing figure of goddess Sekhmet. From goddess Mut temple at Karnak, modern-day Egypt. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty,circa 1250 BCE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany).

Situla of Hor, end of the Late Period to the beginning of the Ptolemaic Period, about 350-280 BCE. From Thebes, Egypt. The British Museum (photo taken at The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia). Situlae were important vessels used for...

Detail of Khonsu on a larger relief depicting the god alongside Mut and Amun making offerings to the Roman Emperor. Temple of Deir el-Hagar, Dakhla Oasis. 1st Century CE, Roman era. Image used courtesy of Ancient World Image Bank (New York...

The owner was "a great commissioner of the palace" for Osorkon II, whose cartouches of birth and throne names appear on the upper arm. The shrine he presents contains a figure of Atum, the creator god of Heliopolis. The statue stood in the...

Cult temple dedicated to Amun, Mut and Khonsu. The largest religious building ever constructed. The temple of Karnak was known as Ipet-isu—or “most select of places”—by the ancient Egyptians. It is a city of temples built over 2,000 years...