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Illustration
A Saite 26th Dynasty period (664-525 BC) bronze art work of an Egyptian cat playing with one of her kittens and feeding another. The goddess Bastet, which had a cat’s head, was one of the many gods in Egypt’s polytheistic religion and had her own temple in Bubastis, in the Nile delta. [Gulbekian Museum; Inv. No.21]
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Shadowgate, . (2012, April 26). Egyptian Cat. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/114/egyptian-cat/
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Shadowgate, . "Egyptian Cat." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified April 26, 2012. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/114/egyptian-cat/.
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