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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.
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.
6 Ιουλ 2020 · The first known cat with a name was called Nedjem meaning 'sweet' or 'pleasant' and dates from the reign of Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC). This is also mentioned in the book The Cat in Ancient Egypt , which adds that Nedjem was found in the tomb of a nobleman named Puimre and that unlike dogs, naming cats in ancient Egypt was uncommon.
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.
8 Απρ 2004 · Until this find, the oldest evidence of tame cats came from Egypt, where 4000-year-old remains and paintings document cats' place of honor in that culture.
7 Δεκ 2021 · The African Wildcat, Felis silvestris lybica, photo by Ingrid Van Den Berg, via NBC News. While cats in ancient Egypt achieved exalted status, they were not domesticated in the Nile Valley. Instead, the earliest record of the cat’s domestication comes from the Near East, the area known as the Fertile Crescent.
8 Απρ 2004 · This new find, from the Neolithic village of Shillourokambos, predates early Egyptian art depicting cats by 4,000 years or more.
