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title: Egyptian Cat
author: Shadowgate
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/114/egyptian-cat/
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license: Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
updated: 2024-10-01
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# Egyptian Cat

_Authored by Shadowgate_

## Image File

[![Egyptian Cat](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/114.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/114.jpg)

## Image Caption

[Bronze](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/bronze/) figure of an [Egyptian](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/Egyptian/) cat playing with one of her kittens and feeding another, Saite 26th Dynasty period (664-525 BCE).

The goddess [Bastet](https://www.worldhistory.org/Bastet/), who had a cat’s head, was one of the many gods in the polytheistic [Egyptian religion](https://www.worldhistory.org/Egyptian_Religion/) and had her own [temple](https://www.worldhistory.org/temple/) in Bubastis, in the [Nile](https://www.worldhistory.org/nile/) Delta.

Gulbekian Museum, Lisbon, Inv. No.21.

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