Comments | ikhet_sekhmet: Mistress of Tepnef

ikhet_sekhmet

Mistress of Tepnef

Sep 30, 2009 17:55

There's an exhibition of Egyptian art on at the Australian Museum, including a terrific Sekhmet. (Every museum has one - they're like those bits of Ashurbanipal's palace that turn up everywhere.) After much squinting and trying to decipher the inscriptions, getting just a few words, I caved and looked them up: "The Son of Re, whom he loves, ( Read more... )

culture: egyptian, goddess: sekhmet, author: lesko

Comments 4

murasaki_1966 September 30 2009, 11:51:53 UTC

Kyla and I thought she was Sekmet. But we could be wrong.

Glad to see you got the the exhibition. I was very disappointed that they didn't have a catalogue. I like catalogues. I can look at them later and enjoy the exhibition all over again.

kateorman October 6 2009, 08:43:58 UTC

And that shop! What a lot of tat!

murasaki_1966 September 30 2009, 11:55:40 UTC

Oh, and may I say, how very clever of you to find the museum the artifacts belong to. You must have been paying more attention than I.

I'm also in love with this ibis statute

kateorman October 6 2009, 08:43:25 UTC

What a friendly looking fellow! :)