Bronze_Saite_era_art_of_an_Egyptian_cat_in_the_Gulbenkian_Museum.jpg
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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 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. [Gulbekian Museum; Inv. No.21]
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Shadowgate at https://www.flickr.com/photos/79586279@N00/346665233 . It was reviewed on 10 September 2008 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |