Figure of a Cat (Primary Title)
Statuette of the Sacred Cat of Bastet (Alternate Title)
Unknown (Artist)
These cat statuettes may have been freestanding sculptures or ornaments for coffins containing cat mummies; both were offered to Bastet, who protected the home and the young, at a number of localities throughout Egypt. In ancient Egyptian, the word for cat was miu.
after 26
Late Period
Kathleen Boone Samuels Memorial Fund
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