Cat mummy · Africa-Antiques, Egypt · ID: 3034067
sold
EUR 3,000
Size
H: 27 cm
H: 10.6 inch
Description
of elongated form with a stylized cats head, tightly wrapped in several layers of fabric stripes, min. dam., minor missing parts, on metal base;
animals associated with deities were regularly mummified in the later periods of Egyptian history. The main concentration of cat burials was at sites with an association with a feline deity. The cat is associated with the goddess “Bastet”, whose cult centre was at Bubastis in the Delta, but there were other feline deities elsewhere in Egypt.
Comparing literature
Wieczorek, Alfried (Hg.), Mumien und Museen, Mannheim 2007, p. 63, ill. 4