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| Keywords: Egyptian - Statuette of a Cat - Walters 542130 - Three Quarter.jpg Representations of cats were popular in ancient Egypt particularly in Bubastis the cult center of the love- and fertility-goddess Bastet who is represented either as a cat or as a woman with a cat's head During the Late and Greco-Roman periods 6th-1st century BC people donated cat figures associated with fertility love and protection to temples throughout Egypt This cat is adorned with golden earrings a beaded collar and a necklace with a wedjat -eye pendant which symbolizes the protection of the sun god century 4 BC Late Period bronze gold cm 17 78 6 35 11 75 accession number 54 2130 34520 Sheik of the Pyramids Henry Walters Baltimore 1930 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1930 Mummified The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2008-2013 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian statuettes in the Walters Art Museum Statues of the Egyptian late period | ||||
