Mummified Cat
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Priests oversaw the rituals, mummifications, funerals, and burials of sacred temple animals. By the mid-1st millennium BC, people were encouraged to pay for the mummification as a sacred offering to the related deity. A cat mummy would be offered to a feline deity, such as Bastet. This was a lucrative business, and "false" mummies were sometimes created to meet the demand. Actually, this is one of those: X-rays show that there is nothing inside the wrappings.For the latest information about this object, Mummified Cat, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.
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Egyptian, Mummified Cat, 3rd-2nd century BCE (Greco-Roman), Ptolemaic Dynasty, Walters Art Museum. CC0, GNU Free Documentation License.
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