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Egyptian Bastet With Colored Jewelry Egypt Statue
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Made of Cast Bronze and Resin
Perfect in every detail.
Hieroglyphics around the base.
Cats were as sacred as Basted, a symbol of animal passion.
Her temple kept sacred cats, which were supposed to be reincarnations of the Goddess.
After they die, they were mummified.
She appears as a woman with the head of a cat, sometimes holding a sistrum or a rattle.
The town of the Bubastis was the cult center of this solar Goddess sometimes represented simply as a cat.
Measures approximately 12" Tall
Base 6-3/8" L x 4" W