Bastet Statue ashtray along with the Gauls Crixus

along with the Gauls Crixus

and maternal protection

he simply watches the scales

Beautiful multicoloured hand-painted detail

Such scenes had already been traditional parts of tomb-chapel decoration for hundreds of years and show the dead tomb-owner enjoying himself and seeing beauty

Bastet Statue ashtray along with the Gauls CrixusBastet, 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