Egyptian Cat

Illustration

Jan van der Crabben
by Shadowgate
published on 26 April 2012
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Bronze figure of an Egyptian cat playing with one of her kittens and feeding another, Saite 26th Dynasty period (664-525 BCE).

The goddess Bastet, who had a cat’s head, was one of the many gods in the polytheistic Egyptian religion and had her own temple in Bubastis, in the Nile Delta.

Gulbekian Museum, Lisbon, Inv. No.21.

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