British museum: Egypt and Greece

My third post about my visits to the British Museum (Anglosaxons, Vikings), today's historical-based pic-overload will be about some Egyptain and Greek pieces, and mainly women-centric depictions, including pics from my visits in 2014 and 2019.  As usual, click on the individual pics or open in a new tab for larger sizes!

 

Other British Museum posts: Anglosaxons, Vikings, Celts

• Egypt: I love the Hathor statues, and particularly all the Sekhmet statues. Sekhmet's one of my favourite Egyptian goddesses, and not only because I'm a Leo xD, she's just a really empowered warrior-goddess and a feminist role model for me 💪🦁💜 And even though Egypt was still a Patriarchal society (even if Egyptian women did have more civil rights than other contemporary cultures), I also love how these women are portrayed with bare chest in the statues without being sexualized.

Hathor: 

Hathor:

• Greece: The woman-centric pics I took in the Greek section include Athena 🦉💙(my favourite Greek/Pre-Hellenic goddess alongside Ártemis), a Caryatid, the Nereids 🌊 (I love those statues, so aesthetic), and some Amazons (once again, more feminist role models for me, I love them 💜🏹).
  

Athena:  

 

Amazons:

Nereids:

 

 

 

A Caryatid:

 

 

More pics from the Greek section from 2006 and 2019:

 

Also, this depiction of a Cretan woman or goddess (640-600 BC):

 

 

And finally, I also took a couple of pics from the Etruscan and Mesopotamian sections:

 

I believe this is Ishtar, I forgot to take a pic of the caption

And an Etruscan statuette of Vanth, a 'winged female demon holding snakes' (425-400 BC), aka Crowley confirmed 🐍 xD