Bastet Statue - Red Granite Madonna Mini Solid Pewter construction with beautiful

Solid Pewter construction with beautiful hand-painted enamel

Handmade in Egypt

Hephaistos is often depicted in the role of midwife

Observe the plating

unblinking gaze of someone who has watched empires rise and fall from a mountain ridge

Bastet Statue - Red Granite Madonna Mini Solid Pewter construction with beautifulBastet, 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