Bastet, Gayer-Anderson CatBronze statuette of the cat goddess Bastet (Bast). Late Period, ca. 664-33
Bastet, Gayer-Anderson CatBronze statuette of the cat goddess Bastet (Bast). Late Period, ca. 664-332 BC.The sculpture is known as the Gayer-Anderson cat after Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson who donated it to the British Museum. The cat wears jewelry and a protective wadjet amulet. A copy of the statue is kept in the Gayer-Anderson Museum, Cairo. Now in the British Museum. EA 64391 -- source link
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