8" H x 7" W x 2-1/2" "D
Cold Cast Bronze with finish as shown
$44 (less Internet discount of $12) = $32
(freight $7)
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Apart from the joy, music and dance, Bastet is also the goddess
of love, sex and fertility. Like the ferocious war goddess Sekhmet,
Bastet was originally a lioness deity, but from 900 BC she began
to be represented as a cat, perhaps because of her gentle nature.
She was sometimes depicted with kittens, which symbolized her
role as a fertility deity. Mummified cats were often buried near
her shrines. |
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