The goddess Mut

The goddess Mut was done after a photographic representation of the head of the statue. The Royal Cast Collection at SMK (The National Gallery of Denmark) has owned a plaster cast of the work since 1903. The original statue, now housed at the Egyptian museum in Cairo, is a fragment of a so-called colossal statue depicting the goddess Mut. Mut was part of the 'Theban triad', a trinity of gods consisting of Amon the father, Mut the mother and Khonsu, their son. These deities gained a prominent place in Egyptian mythology when Thebes was a royal residence just around the time the statue was carved.