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Mummified Cat

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Description

<p>Priests oversaw the rituals, mummifications, funerals, and burials of sacred temple animals. By the mid-1st millennium BC, people were encouraged to pay for the mummification as a sacred offering to the related deity. A cat mummy would be offered to a feline deity, such as Bastet. This was a lucrative business, and "false" mummies were sometimes created to meet the demand. Actually, this is one of those: X-rays show that there is nothing inside the wrappings.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/79.3' rel='external'>Mummified Cat</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

Connections

Deities Bastet

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 79.3 tier-2
  • Walters-id 21582 tier-2
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