Alabaster Bastet Statue - Made in Egypt Accessorie - Hand-made in Egypt

- Hand-made in Egypt

which deposited fertile silt on the riverbanks

This act is a profound gesture of respect and devotion

at least nominally

Alabaster Bastet Statue - Made in Egypt Accessorie - Hand-made in EgyptHand carved Egyptian Alabaster Cat Goddess Bastet statue. Bastet, 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