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The cat dates from the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 600 BC. It's named after Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, who donated the statue to the British Museum in 1939. Gayer-Anderson was a keen collector of small Egyptian sculptures, jewellery and pottery.
12 ώρες πριν · Pharaoh. Nedjem (meaning "sweet one," the actual name of one ancient Egyptian pet cat) Ankh (the iconic "life symbol") Cleopatra. Tutankhamun (or "Tut" for short) Anubis. Miut (an ancient Egyptian ...
Bastet was a mother goddess and benign counterpart to the more aggressive lion goddess Sekhmet. The sculpture is known as the Gayer-Anderson cat after Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson who, together with Mary Stout Shaw, donated it to the British Museum. The cat wears jewelry and a protective wadjet amulet.
7 Δεκ 2021 · Statue of Sekhmet, found in Thebes, 18th dynasty; with a statue of Bastet, found in Bubastis, 900-600 BCE, via the British Museum. While cats in ancient Egypt played a crucial role in Egyptian religion, it would be a mistake to imagine that the Egyptians worshipped cats.
The ancient Egyptian reverence for cats is well-known—and well-documented in the archaeological record: scientists found a cat cemetery in Beni-Hassan brimming with 300,000 cat mummies.
Cats were praised for killing venomous snakes, rodents and birds that damaged crops, and protecting the Pharaoh since at least the First Dynasty of Egypt. Skeletal remains of cats were found among funerary goods dating to the 12th Dynasty.
17 Νοε 2012 · Mummified cats have been found at Bubastis and elsewhere throughout Egypt, sometimes buried with, or near to, their owners as evidenced by identifying seals on the mummies. The greatest example of Egyptian devotion to the cat, however, comes from the Battle of Pelusium (525 BCE) in which Cambyses II of Persia defeated the forces of the Egyptian ...
