Bastet Statue Goddess Sekhmet Statue disregarding the authority of the

disregarding the authority of the senate and famously crossing the Rubicon river without disbanding his army

Depth: 5cm / 2 inches

7 inches Base: 3x7cm / 1

It is finished with brilliant gold and coloured enamel

2 inches diameter

Bastet Statue Goddess Sekhmet Statue disregarding the authority of theBastet, also called Bast, ancient Egyptian goddess worshipped in the form of a lioness and later a cat. The daughter of Ra, the sun god, Bastet was an ancient deity whose ferocious nature was ameliorated after the domestication of the cat around 1500 BCE. She was native to Bubastis in the Nile River delta but also had an important cult at Memphis. In the Late and Ptolemaic periods large cemeteries of mummified cats were created at both sites, and