These photographs were taken at Leeds City Museum where there is an exhibition of Egyptian items on loan from the British Museum. They represent three Egyptian goddesses – Hathor, Sekhmet and Isis.
The first photograph is a limestone relief of Goddess Hathor. This ancient Egyptian goddess personified love, beauty, music and motherhood. She welcomed the dead into the next life. She is depicted as a cow goddess with head horns in which the sun disc is placed as here.
The second phograph is of a statue of Sekhmet. Sekhmet was a warrior goddess and also a goddes of healing. She is shown, as here, as part lioness and part woman. She is a sun goddess and is often describted as the daughter of the sun god Ra.
The final photograph is of a golden statuette showing Isis suckling her son, Horus. Isis was worshipped as the ideal mother and also as a goddess of nature and magic.
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