Egyptian Goddess Serket Statue Gold Leaf Hand Painted Canopic Protector Figurine For Sale

Unique ancient Egyptian statue of Selket goddess of the dead. Her symbolic animal was Scorpion. Hand carved stone gold leaf hand painted made in Egypt. Height 34 cm width 8.5 depth 14.5 cm weight 1100 grams. Selket - protective goddess of canopic jars - Selket was the Egyptian scorpion goddess of magic, protection and healing. In ancient Egyptian religion and mythology, Selket (also spelled Selket,Serqet, Selket, Selquet, and Selkirk) was a scorpion-headed goddess, protector of the young god Horus, and the devoted companion of his mother, the goddess Isis. Selket was also associated with the protection of the dead and their entrails. Serket also became known as the goddess of death and the afterlife, in which she gives life to the recently deceased as they travel to their afterlife . In the art of ancient Egypt, Serket was depicted as a scorpion (a symbol found on the earliest artifacts of the culture, such as form Nagasaki III) or to have the body of a scorpion but the head of a women or as a woman with a scorpion on her head.