An ancient Egyptian bronze statuette depicting the goddess Sekmet, whose name translates as "the powerful". Sekmet was held to be the daughter of the sun god Re and worshiped as both a goddess of war, destruction, and plaque, as well as of healing and protection from pestilence. She is depicted as a female figure with the head of a lioness topped with a solar disk and an uraeus serpent (an Egyptian cobra in upright posture).
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