Reproduction from Paris, Louvre Museum,Large Bastet cat

In the 1st millennium, numerous figurines of Bastet were placed in temples. Represented by a cat-headed woman or a feline, iconographic elements of these ex-votos recall her link with the sun; she is, in fact, the appeased form of the divinity Sekhmet, incarnation of the destructive power of the solar god.Stands at 32.5cm tall and in great condition.