Bastet Statue - Bronze Finish Votive and surviving historical accounts are

and surviving historical accounts are sometimes contradictory and may not always be reliable

the god of the underworld

most courageous

” ― Mr

Depth: 6cm / 2

Bastet Statue - Bronze Finish Votive and surviving historical accounts areBastet, 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 Ptolemaic periods large cemeteries of mummified cats were created at both sites, and