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“Names of Sakhmet” by Yara Mekawei and Elena Sinanina. Advised by Dr. Johannes Auenmüller, Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy.

3D model of a statue of the goddess Sakhmet. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty,1390–1353 BCE. Thebes, Karnak, temple of Mut. Granodiorite, 221 x 60 x 111 cm.

The statue was found in 1818 by Jean-Jacques Rifaud and reached the Egyptian Museum of Turin as part of the “collection” of the French consul Bernardino Drovetti, acquired by Charles Felix, Duke of Piedmont and king of Sardinia in 1824. 

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