Egyptian Cat Artefact

Ancient egyptian faience beaded necklace late period ca.

Egyptian cat artefact. Its function is not understood because of a lack of period documentation. Several ancient egyptian deities were depicted and sculptured with cat like heads such as mafdet bastet and sekhmet representing justice fertility and power. The deity mut was also depicted as a cat and in the company of a cat. Small vintage antique egyptian carved faience.

Egyptians believed that the body had to be intact and preserved in order to gain entrance to the afterlife. Bastet was worshipped strongly with incense and lotus flowers. 1 pc egyptian cleopatra novelty gold bar free capsule great gift history. Facts about egyptian cats inform the readers with a sacred animal during the ancient egyptian period.

Humans as well as animals were mummified with great care. Cats were praised for killing venomous snakes and protecting the pharaoh since at least the first dynasty of egypt. They called the cats as mau. The saqqara bird is a bird shaped artifact made of sycamore wood discovered during the 1898 excavation of the pa di imen tomb in saqqara egypt.

Skeletal remains of cats were found. The saqqara bird has a wingspan of 180 mm 7 1 in and weighs 39 12 g 1 380 oz. The exact arrangement of the rolls and shrouds of linen varied a lot from period to period and can be helpful in dating mummies. Bastet was originally a fierce lioness warrior goddess of the sun worshiped throughout most of ancient egyptian history but later she was changed into the cat goddess that is familiar today becoming bastet.

She then was depicted as the daughter of ra and isis and the consort of ptah with whom she had a son maahes. In ancient egypt hundreds of yards of linen were used to carefully wrap a mummy. See more ideas about egyptian art ancient egyptian art ancient egyptian. The statue shows that many ancient egyptian people worshipped female gods as well as male gods.

The bastet cat statue was created after the ancient egyptian goddess bastet who was the goddess of cats. Some statues depict bastet as a cat in whole top left while others show bastet as a human with a cats head top left. It has been dated to approximately 200 bce and is now housed in the museum of egyptian antiquities in cairo. Bastet s name in egyptian hieroglyphs below means oil jar feminine and seated goddess.

The first domestication of cats took place in the fertile crescent dated back 10 000 years ago from the middle eastern subspecies of wildcat. It is the funerary death mask of the egyptian pharaoh king tutankamun 1332 1323 bc of the 18thdynasty. The religion which focused on the worshipping of animals such as cats flourished in upper and lower egypt thousands of years after cats had been domesticated. Ancient egyptian antique statue of figurine egypt cat goddess bast bastet 945 bc.

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