Necklace counterpoise with aegis of Sakhmet

New Kingdom, Ramesside

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 124

At the top of this menat, or necklace counterpoise, is the head of a lion-headed goddess, wearing a broad collar and crowned with a sun disk. A relief scene showing a lion-headed goddess seated on a throne and holding a papyrus scepter decorates the menat’s center section. This part is flanked on each side by a cobra wearing the Upper Egyptian crown. The bottom section features a rosette.

Necklace counterpoise with aegis of Sakhmet, Faience

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