Bastet Statue ashtray her image softened into the

her image softened into the lithe

highlighting the alert posture of a predator that is also a protector

Such scenes had already been traditional parts of tomb-chapel decoration for hundreds of years and show the dead tomb-owner enjoying himself and seeing beauty

In addition to being represented by an ibis

humility becomes a secondary concern

Bastet Statue ashtray her image softened into theBastet, also called Bast, ancient Egyptian goddess worshipped in the form of a lioness and later a cat. The daughter of Ra, the sun god, Bastet was an ancient deity whose ferocious nature was ameliorated after the domestication of the cat around 1500 BCE. She was native to Bubastis in the Nile River delta but also had an important cult at Memphis. In the Late and Ptolemaic periods large cemeteries of mummified cats were created at both sites, and