猫和小猫在动物木乃伊的破损盒子上 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	猫和小猫在动物木乃伊的破损盒子上
品名（英）	Cat with kittens on damaged box for animal mummy
入馆年号	1929年，29.5a, b
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 664 - 公元前 30
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 11 厘米 (4 5/16 英寸); 宽 9.4 厘米 (3 11/16 英寸); 长 13.8 厘米 (5 7/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	巴斯特是下埃及的一位强大的女神，她具有保护性，能够带来巨大的繁荣。在动物形态中，她被描绘成一只猫，猫对她来说是神圣的。巴斯特躺在这里，看着她的小猫。在喂奶的过程中，有几只小猫是趴着的，但其中一只却端坐着，看着它的妈妈，这给了这一幕可爱而迷人的感觉。小猫证明了巴斯特的繁殖力，而哺乳行为则强调了她的母性和保护性特征，这些特征不仅适用于她的直系后代，也适用于埃及人民 Bastet和她的小猫躺在一个盒子的碎片上，盒子里可能有一个小木乃伊。这些木乃伊盒与其他物品一起存放在地下墓穴中，如布巴斯蒂斯和塞加拉的大型地下墓穴中的亚麻布包裹的猫木乃伊。
介绍（英）	Bastet was a powerful goddess of Lower Egypt, one who was protective and could bring about great prosperity. In zoomorphic form, she was represented as a cat and cats were considered sacred to her. Here Bastet reclines, watching over her kittens. Several of the kittens are prone, in the act of nursing, but one sits upright, looking at its mother, giving this scene an endearing and engaging quality. The kittens attest to Bastet’s fecundity, while the act of nursing emphasizes her motherly and protective characteristics, which extend to and benefit not only her direct offspring but also the people of Egypt. Bastet and her kittens lay on the fragmented remains of a box, which would have held a small mummy inside. Such mummy boxes were deposited in catacombs together with other offerings, such as linen-wrapped cat mummies, as at the extensive catacombs at Bubastis and Saqqara.