Bastet Collectable Figurine ent incense burner As all of the existing

As all of the existing information about her comes from Roman scholars

Originally

carrying the souls of all the deceased to heaven

Finish: Antiqued Bronze Patina

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Bastet Collectable Figurine ent incense burner As all of the existingBastet, also called Bast, ancient Egyptian goddess worshipped in the form of a lioness and later a cat. The daughter of Ra, the sun god, Bastet was an ancient deity whose ferocious nature was ameliorated after the domestication of the cat around 1500 BCE. She was native to Bubastis in the Nile River delta but also had an important cult at Memphis. In the Late and Ptolemaic periods large cemeteries of mummified cats were created at both sites, and