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| Keywords: Egyptian - Cat Mummy - Walters 793.jpg 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 century 3 2 BC Greco-Roman linen cm 19 3 accession number 79 3 21582 Mrs Frances Eaton Weld date and mode of acquisition unknown Heirs of Mrs Frances Eaton Weld Walters Art Museum Gift of the heirs of Mrs Frances Eaton Weld 1947 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian art in the Walters Art Museum Egyptian mummies of cats Egyptian mummies in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
