Bastet Mini Statue

Bastet Mini StatueBastet, 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

Handcrafted in Egypt

particularly Tacitus and Cassius Dio

This seated figure captures that earlier

She is a goddess of transitions and change

The symbol is an Egyptian hieroglyph for "life" or "breath of life" (`nh = ankh) and

as Augustus

Through relentless questioning and sharp dialogue

This detail is considered a symbol that appeared often in relics

justice and political power

"Horus was an Egyptian sky God in the form on a falcon whose right eye was the sun and his left eye the moon

This is signified by her transparent clothing

Hephaestus