Bastet Statue with Gold Detail - Large Egyptian__Statue Width: 21cm / 8

Width: 21cm / 8

In the Late and Ptolemaic periods large cemeteries of mummified cats were created at both sites

Dictatorship was always regarded a temporary position but in 44 BC

Total Depth: 9cm / 3

Beautiful hand-carved Sekhmet statue

Bastet Statue with Gold Detail - Large Egyptian__Statue Width: 21cm / 8Dimensions: Height: 20cm 8 inches Length: 13cm 5. 1 inches Width: 8cm 3. 1 inches Bastet, also called Bast, ancient Egyptian goddess worshipped in the form of a lioness and later a cat. The daughter of Ra, the sun god, Bastet was an ancient deity whose ferocious nature was ameliorated after the domestication of the cat around 1500 BCE. She was native to Bubastis in the Nile River delta but also had an important cult at Memphis. In the Late and