Musées de Langres – Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot – Musée d'Art et d'Histoire

This small wood carving depicts the goddess Sekhmet as a woman with the head of a lioness. Sekhmet was both destructive and benevolent. Her priests healed humans and animals alike. The Langres museums were gifted their Egyptian collection in the first half of the 19th century, by corresponding members of the Langres Historical and Archaeological Society.