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Description: | Mummified cat. 38cm high. Large cat cemeteries associated with the goddess Bastet developed at sites throughout Egypt including Bubastis, Saqqara and Thebes. The practise of mummification and internment in large cemeteries began in the first millenium BC but was particularly popular in the Ptolemaic Period. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 747 B.C.-332 B.C.
Late Period - Ptolemaic
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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