Sekhmet Amulet

Mould-made faience amulet in the shape of the head of the lioness-headed goddess Sekhmet. Image on both sides. Fragment of something like a menat counterpoise? CONDITION NOTE (1998): Broken, worn, adhesive residue, surface dirt. From the Egypt Exploration Fund 1884 excavations at Tanis (San el-Hagar), directed by William Flinders Petrie; assigned to the Egypt Exploration Fund in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.