铭文非常磨损的猫 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	铭文非常磨损的猫
品名（英）	Cat with very worn inscription
入馆年号	1910年，10.130.1320
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 8.8 厘米 (3 7/16 英寸); 宽 3.6 厘米 (1 7/16 英寸); 长 5.9 厘米 (2 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。这只猫以典型的姿势坐在menat形状的底座上，直立，尾巴沿着右侧缠绕。它泰然自若，警惕外部势力。底座上一块破旧的铭文保留了巴斯特的名字和捐赠者父母的部分名字像猫头巴斯特雕像一样，这些猫通常有特殊的装饰。这个人物的耳朵似乎被打了耳钉，很可能是由贵重金属制成的，戴着一个宽大的衣领，下面挂着一个护身符，身份不明。尾巴上的刻痕模仿猫的环状尾巴。它的前爪上方也有刻有文字的带子，这是一个常见的奇特特征；这些标记可能只是弯曲的爪子的褶皱关节，也可能代表更多的珠宝，比如手镯猫雕像是晚期和托勒密时期最常见的动物雕像之一。像这样的小雕像，本来会作为祭品献给寺庙，或者存放在猫木乃伊旁边的地下墓穴中，比如Bubastis和Saqqara的大型地下墓穴。有时更大的中空的例子里面有一只猫木乃伊。
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. This cat sits on a menat-shaped base in a typical pose, upright with its tail wrapped along its right side. It is poised and alert, on guard against external forces. A worn inscription on the base preserved Bastet’s name and parts of the donor’s parents’ names. Like cat-headed Bastet statuettes, these cats often have special adornments. This figure’s ears seem to have been pierced for earrings, probably originally of precious metal, and it wears a broad collar, below which hangs an amulet, the identity of which is unclear. Incised marks on the tail imitate the ringed tail of a cat. It also has inscribed bands above the front paws, a curious feature not commonly represented; the markings could simply be the creased joint of the flexed paws, or they could represent more jewelry, such as bracelets. Cat statuettes were among some of the most common zoomorphic dedications of the Late and Ptolemaic Periods. Small ones, like this one, would have been dedicated as offerings to temples or would have been deposited in catacombs alongside cat mummies, as at the extensive catacombs at Bubastis and Saqqara. Sometimes larger hollow examples held a cat mummy inside.