Mummified Cat
Priests oversaw the rituals, mummifications, funerals, and burials of sacred temple animals. By the mid-1st millennium BC, people were encouraged to pay for the mummification as a sacred offering to the related deity. A cat mummy would be offered to a feline deity, such as Bas...
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21582
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object
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normalized
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Mrs. Frances Eaton Weld [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Heirs of Mrs. Frances Eaton Weld; Walters Art Museum, 1947, by gift.
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en
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1
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import
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_79.3_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_79.3_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_79.3_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/79.3 |
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