Image: Bronze Saite era art of an Egyptian cat in the Gulbenkian Museum
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Description: A Saite 26th Dynasty period (664-525 BC) bronze art work of an Egyptian cat playing with one of her kittens and feeding another. The goddess Bastet, which had a cat’s head, was one of the many gods in Egypt’s polytheistic religion and had her own temple in Bubastis, in the Nile delta. [Gulbekian Museum; Inv. No.21]
Title: Bronze Saite era art of an Egyptian cat in the Gulbenkian Museum
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