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11 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 ...
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.
In 1830, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg accounted of having observed three different small cat forms in Egypt: the jungle cat, the African wildcat, and a sacred cat that was intermediate in size between the jungle cat and the domestic cat.
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.
Bastet, Gayer-Anderson Cat. The Gayer-Anderson cat is a bronze figure depicting one form of the goddess Bastet. The goddess was usually shown as a cat-headed woman, or in the form of a cat. Her principal cult center was Bubastis in the Nile Delta.
17 Νοε 2012 · Cats in Ancient Egypt. The cat's association with ancient Egypt, however, is understandable in that Egyptian culture was famous for its devotion to the cat. The export of cats from Egypt was so strictly prohibited that a branch of the government was formed solely to deal with this issue.
10 Νοε 2018 · Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a collection of mummified cats and scarab beetles in a series of ancient tombs. Reuters. The finds, dating back more than 4,000 years, were made at...
