Show GODDESS HAS MANY STATUES I 1 or mut egyptian war divinity seems to have been a favorite with sculptors the arrival at the metropolitan museum or art in new york tork of seven statues of or mut the ancient egyptian goddess of war purchased in england in 1911 1914 1 reminds one of the beginnings of modern interest in archeology archaeology arche for the seven statues although their history over the last century seems seem difficult to trace in all sta ra details were probably among the earliest results of Egypt hin excavation that came to england something over centuries ago E egyptian were caning such statues out of solid blocks of black granite ite for the decoi atlon of temp temple leg and then in as the record goes an diab sheik working at tile the instigation of a venetian priests priest found a statue of mut jut it in the sand that had accumulated over the ruins ruin of IC barnac arnac since then a good anaw many statues of mut jut have been recovered and the strange goddess of stiffe c part animal and in part human as the sculptors imagined her dwells in many a museum |