A Statue of Sekhmet from Carthage
Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, January 2015
On loan from the Musée National du Bardo in Tunis, as part of the exhibition Carthago (27 November 2014 – 10 May 2015).
A statue of a lion-headed goddess, likely a Carthaginian adaptation of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet. Or perhaps a leontocephalic from of the Punic goddess Tanit?
First century CE. Found in Thinissut. Terracotta. H. 150 cm.
A Statue of Sekhmet from Carthage
Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, January 2015
On loan from the Musée National du Bardo in Tunis, as part of the exhibition Carthago (27 November 2014 – 10 May 2015).
A statue of a lion-headed goddess, likely a Carthaginian adaptation of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet. Or perhaps a leontocephalic from of the Punic goddess Tanit?
First century CE. Found in Thinissut. Terracotta. H. 150 cm.