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Description: | Mummified cat head. Features drawn on bandages and false ears. Label states "Presented by J.Bryan of Cairo formerly of UCW Ptolemaic or Roman". Gift from University of Wales Aberystwyth. In the Graeco-Roman period cats were mummified and presented to the goddess Bastet. The cult centre of Bastet was Bubastis. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | Ptolemaic
Roman Period
Graeco Roman | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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