Wildlife Art
Cat of the Godness Bastet
RE000097
Reproduction patinated by hand. Mold made from an imprint of the original work exhibited at the Louvre.
In the 1st millennium, numerous figurines of Bastet were placed in temples. Represented by a cat-headed woman or a feline, iconographic elements of these ex-votos recall her link with the sun; she is, in fact, the appeased form of the divinity Sekhmet, incarnation of the destructive power of the solar god.
