Egyptian Cats
Egyptian Bastet Museum Quality Ceramic Canopic Urn
Celebrate the art of ancient Egypt with the cat-god Bastet, ringed with traditional symbols and rich hieroglyphics. Egyptian cats were so revered that they were often mummified upon death, and buried in cat-shaped sarcophagi.
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Egyptian Cat Bastet : Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 600 B.C.
The first reference to the domestic cat appears in the eleventh dynasty. Because it was hostile to snakes, it became a sacred animal of the Sun God. In the New Kingdom, the male cat was regarded as an incarnation of the Sun God and the female cat was equated with the solar eye.
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Egyptian Cat Bastet - Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 550 B.C.
The first reference to the domestic cat appears in the eleventh dynasty. Because it was hostile to snakes, it became a sacred animal of the Sun God. In the New Kingdom, the male cat was regarded as an incarnation of the Sun God and the female cat was equated with the solar eye.
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Egyptian Cat Bastet - Saqqara, Egypt. 1200 BC
The first reference to the domestic cat appears in the eleventh dynasty. Because it was hostile to snakes, it became a sacred animal of the Sun God. In the New Kingdom, the male cat was regarded as an incarnation of the Sun God and the female cat was equated with the solar eye.
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Egyptian Cat Relief
The first reference to the domestic cat appears in the eleventh dynasty. Because it was hostile to snakes, it became a sacred animal of the Sun God. In the New Kingdom, the male cat was regarded as an incarnation of the Sun God and the female cat was equated with the solar eye.
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The Giant Bastet of Karnak Temple Sculpture
This image of the Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, is paired with the fierce cobra that epitomizes her power. Beautiful alone or as a pair flanking a doorway, she makes a dramatic statement.
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