Bastet Enthroned
The cat-goddess Bastet could be depicted with the head of a lioness, adding an extra potency to her protection. The inscriptions indicate that this enthroned figure of the goddess was a New Year's gift, given to celebrate the beneficial annual flooding of the Nile River.
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12694
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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as from Fayoum]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.468_Fnt_NG_2717.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.468_Fnt_NG_2717.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.468_Fnt_NG_2717.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.468 |
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