Group of Ptah and Sakhmet

Group of Ptah and Sakhmet

The group represents the deities standing on a rectangular base. Ptah is mummyform, holding a was staff and a djed symbol. On his head there is a tightly fitting cap being his traditional attribute; his artificial beard is widening downwards. The eyebrows and cosmetic lines are long, continuing at the temples. Sakhmet is shown as a lioness-headed woman with her left foot advanced. She wears a long dress and holds an ankh sign in her right hand and a staff in the left hand; a sun-disc with an uraeus crowns her head.

Present location

STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM [10/002] PETERSBURG

Inventory number

314

Dating

LATE PERIOD

Archaeological Site

UNKNOWN

Category

STATUE

Material

BASALT

Technique

HEWN; POLISHED

Height

58 cm

Bibliography

• Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, p.109, cat.no.116, fig.72.

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