Cat mummy

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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.

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Littérature comparée

Wieczorek, Alfried (Hg.), Mumien und Museen, Mannheim 2007, p. 63, ill. 4

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