Bastet Statue Ganesh and the nurturing of creative

and the nurturing of creative endeavours

Width: 4 inches / 10 cm

The object received the find number of 8 and today is displayed with the inventory number JE 60723 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

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Bastet Statue Ganesh and the nurturing of creativeBastet, 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