Seated Goddess Rayet-tawy (Rat-taoui)

late 4th-late 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic) H: 15 3/4 in. (40.01 cm) Citation Source image

This is a seated limestone statue of the goddess Rayet-tawy. She was a female form of the sun god and was also goddess of the Two Lands. There is some discoloration and pitting in the stone. There are several cracks and a major fissure divides the statue into two fragments...

Sculpture

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[Found in the ruins of Medamud, 1926]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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