Ancient Egyptian Cat Drawings

Drawing on limestone of a scene from a fable ancient egyptian 19th dynasty c1120 bc.

Ancient egyptian cat drawings. Ancient egyptian art has an almost 5 000 year old history and boasts many extremely symbolic and fascinating paintings and sculptures. The ancient egyptians adored cats because cats protected their stores of food from rats snakes and mice. The wall painting from the tomb of inher kha which shows the sun god battling apep is from the new kingdom which is. Ancient cat letters drawing.

Junko k junko. More from this artist similar designs. 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 deity mut was also depicted as a cat and in the company of a cat.

More from this artist similar designs. The eleventh hour print. Symbol stock illustration rainbow cat face vector sacred animal of ancient egypt mystical cat face with egyptian hieroglyphic symbols hand drawn egyptian c. From some of the most beautiful depictions of ancient wars to the symbolic representation of religion.

Egyptian cat art. 1 41. Most downloads size popular. Cats are often seen in paintings.

The feline queen drawing. 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. From the cairo museum. More from this artist similar designs.

The ancient egyptian cat drawing. Even more notable is the fact that most elements of egyptian art remained intact and stable for over 3 000 years with no significant outside influences. An illustration of an egyptian cat design eye of horus black egyptian cat pyramids head of nefertiti ancient egypt set collection icons in black style vector. Unknown 118 cat guarding geese c1120 bc egypt.

A cat with a shepherd s crook and a bag over his shoulder guards six geese and a nest of eggs. Get 10 free shutterstock images pick10free. The jackal was used mainly to represent the god of the afterlife anubis the jackal is a common animal seen in ancient egyptian art. In ancient egypt domesticated cats were useful for getting rid of vermin like rats mice and snakes especially cobras.

They were often kept as pets and mummified. Since the sun god ra was the greatest enemy of apep apophis the evil cobra god of darkness it makes since to me that cats would be associated with ra.