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品名（中）	猫
品名（英）	Cat
入馆年号	1904年，04.2.474
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 11.2 厘米 (4 7/16 英寸); 宽 4.1 厘米 (1 5/8 英寸); 长 6.7 厘米 (2 5/8 英寸) 高 (with tangs): 12.4 厘米 (4 7/8 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。作为一只猫，她泰然自若，警惕外部势力。这个人物胸部有一个宽大的衣领，这是一件既美丽又有力量的物品。尾巴上的刻痕模仿猫的环状尾巴。小雕像的下侧是敞开的，表明它是用失蜡工艺铸造而成的中空雕像，大多数小雕像都是这样；内部仍然可以看到铸造过程中的核心材料猫雕像是晚期和托勒密时期最常见的动物雕像之一。像这样的小雕像可能会被奉献给寺庙，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. As a cat, she is poised and alert, on guard against external forces. This figure has a broad collar on its chest, an item of both beauty and power. Incised marks on the tail imitate the ringed tail of a cat. The underside of the statuette is open, showing that it was hollow cast with the lost wax process, as the majority of these statuettes were; core material from the casting process is still visible inside. Cat statuettes were among some of the most common zoomorphic dedications of the Late and Ptolemaic Periods. Small statuettes like this one would have been dedicated as offerings to temples or deposited in catacombs alongside cat mummies, as at the extensive catacombs at Bubastis and Saqqara. Sometimes larger hollow examples held a cat mummy inside.