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Curationist Object Description

The cat atop this funerary box hunches forward, as if ready to strike. The cat embodies the goddess Bastet. Bastet was a protector goddess, especially of women and children. The figure's body is incised with short hairs and her eyes are inlaid with stones. Hieroglyphs around the box offer praise to Bastet.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Object Description

Mummy case, cat

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