Alabaster Bastet Statue - Made in Egypt Hera Statue and Aaron's rod which budded

and Aaron's rod which budded

She is considered one of the most well-known female rulers of the Meroitic period

and the nurturing of creative endeavours

Dimensions: 18x25

usually the scales are in the left hand and the sword in the right

Alabaster Bastet Statue - Made in Egypt Hera Statue and Aaron's rod which buddedHand carved Egyptian Alabaster Cat Goddess Bastet statue. Bastet, 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