Ancient Art - WADJET
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Ancient Art WADJET A bronze sculpture Wadjet is one of the best examples of Late Period in Egyptian culture (the 26th Dynasty, about 664-525 B.C. or later). This impressive sculpture represents the goddess Wadjet, protectress of the king and tutelary deity of Lower Egypt. Usually Egyptian goddesses depict with the head of a lioness, but this one has a full disc instead of head. Wadjet is supposed to have been an offering in a temple and may have served as a container for the remains of sacred animal. The figure isn't very big. Its height is 13in (33sm). There is a sacred cobra on the headdress, inscribed base and the tangs that attached the statuette to a pedestal or other support. It's known that each such a figure should have had some special attributes. Probably a papyrus scepter in the proper left hand and an ankh in the right one...

