Title: Bastet statuette. Period: Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. Date: 664–30 BC. Geography: From Egypt. Medium: Cupreous metal. Dimensions: H. 9.6 × W. 3.1 × D. 4.4 cm (3 3/4 × 1 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.) Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1958. Object Number: 58.67

The Gayer-Anderson cat is a bronze figure depicting one form of the goddess Bastet. The goddess was usually shown as a cat-headed woman, or in the form of a cat. Her principal cult center was Bubastis in the Nile Delta.

Bronze figure of Bastet: this solid cast figure of the goddess Bastet represents her as a woman with cat's head wearing a heavily patterned long garment. Her eyes have gold inlays and her ears are pierced for earrings.

Statue of Bastet, in her hands she holds a sistrum. Bastet first appears in the third millennium BCE, where she is depicted as either a fierce lioness or a woman with the head of a lioness. [16]

Bastet, ancient Egyptian goddess worshiped in the form of a lioness and later a cat. The daughter of Re, the sun god, Bastet was an ancient deity whose ferocious nature was ameliorated after the domestication of the cat around 1500 BCE. Learn more about Bastet in this article.

Bastet, in cat form, represents the gentle form of the fierce Sekhmet and is kindly disposed towards the Egyptians; like equally gentle Hathor, who was associated with cattle, she was...

2020年12月6日 · Today, we see a statue of the goddess Bastet, made of bronze and gold, which is in the Louvre Museum, and it is one of the most famous statues in the ancient Egyptian civilization.

From earliest times, Egyptian venerated a wide circle of feline-headed female deities, such as Sakhmet, Tefnut, Wadjet, and Bastet. This statuette of a standing Bastet has an usekh-collar with a lioness head in her hand as a protective symbol.

2020年9月5日 · A bronze statuette of the goddess Bastet (labelled Bastet-E 3731), made during the Late Period of Ancient Egypt, c. 664-332 BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

2024年11月18日 · The Temple of Bastet was designed with a grand approach, featuring an impressive entrance flanked by colossal statues of the goddess. The temple complex included a sanctuary, courtyards, and various altars dedicated to Bastet, all constructed with meticulous attention to detail.