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| EGYPTIAN BRONZE STANDING BASTET Cat-headed godddess of women and joy; holding a sistrum. Cf. G. Roeder, Bronzefiguren, Mitteilungen aus der Ägyptischen Sammlung, VI, 1956, pp. 266-272, pl. 39f; N. and B. Langton, The Cat in Ancient Egypt, 1940, pl.16; L. Delvaux, ‘chats de bronze’, in L. Delvaux-E. Warmenbol (Ed.) Les divins chats d'Egypte, 1991, fig. 62.; see also Schoske-D. Wildung, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, Kat, Berlin, 1992, p.14 no. 4. Ex collection of Jürg Marquard, Herrliberg, Switzerland. Late Period 712-30 BC H. 4 3/4 in. (12 cm.) CBJ04 Reserved Sales |
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| Although the cat counted as an animal of the goddess Bastet, every cat is not a Bastet and not every lioness a Sekhmet. Rather lioness and cat embody two different aspects of female divinities. While the lioness represents the dangerous and unpredictable, the cat stands for the gentleness. The wild Sekhmet and the good-natured Bastet became in the late time almost personifications of these two characteristics. | |
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