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In order to placate Sekhmet's wrath, her priestesses performed a ritual before a different statue of the goddess on each day of the year.

This practice resulted in many images of the goddess being preserved.

Most of her statuettes were rigidly crafted and do not exhibit any expression of movements or dynamism ; this design was made to make them last a long time rather than to express any form of functions or actions she is associated with.

It is estimated that more than seven hundred statues of Sekhmet once stood in one funerary temple alone, that of Amenhotep III, on the west bank of the Nile.