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LUXOR, EGYPT—More than 60 statues of Sekhmet have been found at Amenhotep III’s temple at Kom El-Hitan on Luxor’s west bank. Now Egyptologist Horig Sourouzian has uncovered two more busts of the lioness goddess on the northeastern side of the temple’s pillar halls. One of the statues depicts Sekhmet sitting on a throne; the other, smaller sculpture is of her face. “Some Egyptologists believe that king Amenhotep constructed a large number of statue goddess Sekhmets in an attempt to cure him of a specific disease that he suffered during his reign,” Sourouzian told Ahram Online.
