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Bastet Standing

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Accession: 54.408
Dynasty: 29th-Ptolemaic Dynasty
Date: 4th-mid 3rd century BCE (Late Period-Ptolemaic)
Date range: 400 BCE – 250 BCE
Materials: ['bronze with gold inlay']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), Bastet Standing (54.408). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/220340

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<p>Bastet, often represented with the head of a lion or a cat, was a goddess both of joy and pleasure and of warfare. Here, she holds a protective ritual instrument, an usekh-collar surmounted by a feline head with a sun-disk.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.408' rel='external'>Bastet Standing</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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Deities Bastet

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Walters-AccNum 54.408 tier-2
Walters-id 38874 tier-2

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