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1 ημέρα πριν · Sphinx. 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 pet name for girls meaning "little cat") A cat walking past the Al Mina Mosque in Hurghada, Egypt.
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 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.
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.
13 Ιουν 2017 · Cats were a popular pet in ancient Egypt and closely associated with the goddess Bastet (also known as Bast) who appears in Egyptian art with the body of a woman and the head of a cat or as a sitting cat in a regal pose.
5 Μαρ 2021 · Excavations show how humans treated cats, dogs and monkeys in first- and second-century Egypt
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.
