Bastet Statue Cleo the amulets were intended to

the amulets were intended to protect the dead from all that was harmful in the afterlife

Hand-carved Egyptian Alabaster Cleopatra Lounging statue

one of the best known sculptures by French artist Auguste Rodin

Octopus Skull

Bastet Statue Cleo the amulets were intended toBastet, 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