装有动物木乃伊的盒子，上面刻有猫 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	装有动物木乃伊的盒子，上面刻有猫
品名（英）	Box for animal mummy surmounted by a cat, inscribed
入馆年号	1912年，12.182.27
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 16.8 厘米 (6 5/8 英寸); 宽 8.2 厘米 (3 1/4 英寸); 长 33.8 厘米 (13 5/16 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。通常猫形的巴斯特是直立的，如10.130.1332；这只猫是侧卧的，这是一种不太常见但仍得到充分证明的姿势。尽管猫是倾斜的姿势，但它很专注，好像保护着它下面的容器的长度。它不像一些坐着的猫那样佩戴珠宝或护身符，但它展现出了奇妙的细节水平，全身上的雕刻标记赋予了它的毛质质感和深度，镶嵌物赋予了它眼睛的活力。尾巴上的带状标记模仿猫的环状尾巴。背面的一小块方形青铜是对铸造缺陷的古代修复这只猫躺在一个中空的长方形盒子上，盒子原本可能装有一具动物木乃伊。盒子的背面是打开的，木乃伊就放在那里。盒子正面的铭文上写着捐赠者的名字。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. Usually Bastet in cat form is seated upright, like 10.130.1332; this cat is recumbant, a less common but still well attested position. Despite the reclining position, the cat is attentive, as if guarding the length of the receptacle beneath it. It does not wear jewelry or amulets like some seated cats, but it displays a wonderful level of detail, with incised markings on the whole body giving texture and depth to its fur, and inlay giving vitality to its eyes. Banded marks on the tail imitate the ringed tail of a cat. A small square patch of bronze on the rear is an ancient repair of a minor casting flaw. The cat rests on a hollow rectangular box, which would have originally held an animal mummy. The box is open at the back, where the mummy was inserted. An inscription on the front of the box gives the name of the donor. 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.