An ancient Egyptian green faience ring with a recessed image of the goddess Sekhmet standing in profile with the head of a lioness wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, holding a papyrus stalk scepter.
Sekhmet was a warrior goddess of Upper Egypt depicted as a lioness. She was also a solar deity, and was associated with different aspects of Hathor, Mut, and Bastet. She often wears a solar disk headdress, and uraeus which associates her with Wadjet and royalty.
$3,500
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