Hollow wooden figure of a cat sitting on its haunches, set on a plinth. Both figure and plinth are plastered and painted. The internal cavity was intended to preserve the mummy of a cat. Large numbers of cats were mummified and buried at sites throughout Egypt during the period 700 BC to AD 100. In many cases these are offerings to the cat-goddess Bastet, as at her cult-centre Bubastis in the NileDelta.
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