Bastet Statue Mini Greek God This example was one of

This example was one of a pair found in a shaft associated with the tomb chapel of the steward Senbi II at Meir

This creates a face of unnatural

and other artifacts

6 inchesLength: 12cm / 4

in what is now northern Iraq

Bastet Statue Mini Greek God This example was one ofBastet, 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