statue
- Museum number
- EA52
- Description
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Head and upper body of a granodiorite statue of Sekhmet with a sun-disk headdress. The back of the disk is linked to the sloping top of the back-pillar. The body below the level of the collar, including the base of one lappet of the wig, has been restored, as have parts of the back-pillar.
- Dimensions
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Height: 103 centimetres
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Width: 55 centimetres
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Depth: 50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- PM II (2): p.265
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006-2015 (Renewable), Glasgow, Kelvingrove, LT Loan
- Condition
- incomplete - upper portion only
- Acquisition date
- 1821
- Acquisition notes
- Erroneously entered as being from the 1835 collection. Salt's Sekhmets were all in the first collection. [NCS 9/2/05].
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA52
- Registration number
- .52
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.52 (Birch Slip Number)
