MEDIUM PRIORITY PROJECT

The restoration is part of the “Sekhmet Project” focused on the study and preservation of the statues of the goddess Sekhmet, one of the most important deities of the Egyptian pantheon, a healer and protective goddess. These are five, including statues and fragments, of the eleven granodiorite statues of the deity preserved in the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, which entered the Vatican in the first half of the 19^th century as a purchase from the Cavazzi-Guidi collection. The statues of the goddess, depicted both standing and seated (pictured here), were all originally located in the funerary temple of Amenhotep III at Kom el-Hettan (West Thebes, Luxor), erected between 1390 and 1353 B.C. Many statues were later reused in other temple contexts in later periods, where a few can still be found, but many remained in situ.

TOTAL COST: € 47.171,90 ($ 46,105.82)

• Photography before, during, and after the intervention

• Preconsolidation of decohesive surfaces

• Cleaning

• Grouting

• Application of a protective coating