Miniature Group of Ptah and Sakhmet

Description Depicted here in a double image are Ptah, one of the main creator gods (and a patron of artisans), and Sakhmet, the daughter of the sun-god Re and Ptah's consort. Her ill will brought destruction to mankind. This group was once part of a larger configuration.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
5/28/1962	Treatment	cleaned

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925