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to sell for the smallest coin to passing travelers. The path became strewn with mummy cloth and bits of cats' skulls and bones and fur in horrid positions, and the wind blew the fragments about and carried the stink afar." In 1890, a shipment of thousands of animal mummies reached Liverpool. Most of them were cat mummies. A large part was sold as fertiliser, a small part was purchased by the zoological museum of the city's university college.
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wrote about excavations in Speos Artemidos near Beni Hasan: "The plundering of the cemetery was a sight to see, but one had to stand well windward. The village children came from day to day and provided themselves with the most attractive mummies they could find. These they took down the river bank
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and pagan rituals in Egypt. Pagan temples were impounded and sacrifices prohibited by 380 AD. Three edicts issued between 391 and 392 prohibited pagan rituals and burial ceremonies at all cult sites. Death penalty for offenders was introduced in 395, and the destruction of pagan temples decreed in
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was discovered in 1996, which contained cat mummies next to human mummies. In 2001, the skeleton of a male lion was found in this tomb that also showed signs of mummification. It was about nine years old, probably lived in captivity for many years and showed signs of malnutrition. It had probably
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accounted of having observed three different small cat forms in Egypt: the jungle cat, the African wildcat, and a sacred cat that was intermediate in size between the jungle cat and the domestic cat. He called this cat
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in 1980. The analysis revealed that they were deliberately strangulated before they reached the age of two years. They were probably used to supply the demand for mummified cats as votive offerings.
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Conservation of Ancient Egyptian Materials, preprints of the conference organised by the United Kingdom Institute for Conservation, Archaeology Section, held at Bristol, December 15–16
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contained 17 cat skeletons dating to the early 20th century BC. Next to the skeletons stood small pots that are thought to have contained milk for the cats. Several tomb murals in the
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in the 9th century BC, the temple of Bastet was enlarged by a festival hall. Cat statues and statuettes from this period exist in diverse sizes and materials, including solid and
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for the first time and found mummified cats and remains of other animals. They also found mummified cats and cat skeletons in the Theban Necropolis. In the 1820s, the
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shops at the time. At the city's cemetery of cats, he and colleagues emptied several large pits up to a volume of 20 m (720 cu ft) filled with cat and
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and were built in the 15th and 14th centuries BC. The murals show a cat sitting under a chair during a buffet, eating meat or fish; some show it in the company of a
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received all property that was formerly dedicated to paganism. Pagans were exiled by 423, and crosses replaced pagan symbols following a decree from 435.
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shows a small cat with a collar, suggesting that tamed African wildcats were kept in the pharaonic quarters by the 26th century BC.
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described the annual festival at the Bubastis temple as the largest in the country, attended by several hundred thousand pilgrims.
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El-Kilany, E.; Mahran, H. (2015). "What lies under the chair! A study in ancient Egyptian private tomb scenes, Part I: Animals".
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indicate that the domesticated cat became more popular in daily life. Cats were depicted in association with the name of Bastet.
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Egypt has since experienced a decline in the veneration once held for cats. They were still respected in the 15th century, when
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in the 25th century BC and reused later. The cats were probably mummified as tissue shreds were still stuck in their bones.
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Goddard, F. B. (1889). "Report on Recent Excavations and Explorations in Egypt during the Season of 1888–89".
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Museum exhibited cat statues made of wood, bronze, and enameled pottery that originated mostly in Bubastis.
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The cat in ancient Egypt, illustrated from the collection of cat and other Egyptian figures formed
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Sarcophagus of Prince Thutmose's cat, exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts of Valenciennes, France
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period. Mummified remains of 335 domestic and 29 jungle cats were excavated in the catacombs of
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and cat statues that are exhibited in museum collections worldwide. Among the mummified animals
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Late Egyptian bronze statuette of a mother cat nursing her kittens, dating c. 664 – c. 332 BC,
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show cats in domestic scenes. These tombs belonged to nobles and high-ranking officials of the
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The first known indication for the mummification of a cat was found in an elaborately carved
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received a collection of 192 mummified cats and 11 small carnivores excavated at Gizeh by
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at Beni Hasan, Sakkara and Thebes. The cats were of all ages from adult to kittens with
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and the benefits of the sun for life on Earth. Cat-shaped decorations used during the
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area at Saqqara in the early 1980s yielded 200 cat mummies in the tomb of the Vizier
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found a tomb full of cat mummies in 1901. It was located in the midst of tombs with
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warriors treating cats with honour and empathy. Gentle treatment of cats is part of
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were represented in social and religious scenes dating as early as 1980 BC. Several
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at around the mid 950s BC onwards, the deity Bastet and her temple in the city of
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became associated with Bastet and cats, as indicated by an inscription at the
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Cat mummies exhibited in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre
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bones, indicating that they were beaten to death. In this site, the tomb of
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Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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Amulets with cat heads came into fashion in the 21st century BC during the
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was worshipped as protector of the pharaohs. During the reign of Pharaoh
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in the 4th and 5th centuries AD gradually curtailed the practice of
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necropoli were reused as cemeteries for mummies offered to Bastet.
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was the first known cat-headed deity in ancient Egypt. During the
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were also found. By 1889, the cemetery was considered exhausted.
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Cats and religion began to be disassociated after Egypt became a
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were used for several centuries. They contained vast numbers of
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dated to about 1350 BC. This cat is assumed to have been
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were depicted and sculptured with cat-like heads such as
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depicts a cat in a hunting scene confronting a rat-like
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was also depicted as a cat and in the company of a cat.
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to the associated deity, mostly during festivals or by
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A bronze statue dated to 664−332 BC, exhibited in the
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Cat eating a fish under a chair, mural in the tomb of
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grew in popularity. She was later shown only with a
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Index

Cats in Egypt
hieroglyphs

Bastet
ancient Egypt
cats
ancient Egyptian deities
Mafdet
Bastet
Sekhmet
Mut
venomous snakes
Pharaoh
First Dynasty of Egypt
12th Dynasty
Book of the Dead
Ra
New Kingdom of Egypt
Speos Artemidos
Bubastis
Saqqara
cat mummies
excavated
Gizeh
African wildcat
jungle cat
resins
embalming
Mafdet
First Dynasty

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