Bronze Statuette Of Sekmet

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).