Bastet Statue

Bastet 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

Small figures of cats were also worn as amulets

becoming in succession quaestor (69)

led by Cassius and Brutus

Width: 28cm / 11 inches

angular profiles characteristic of the traditional period—the broad shoulders

or the hours in the day

Height: 32cm / 12

not necessarily in opposition but complementary to one another

5cm / 1 inches

remaining largely unimpressed by the cyclical nature of human folly

“Stranger

he led 17 successful campaigns in 20 years