Alabaster Bastet Statue - Made in Egypt Hera Statue 5cm / 9 inchesWidth: 15cm

5cm / 9 inchesWidth: 15cm / 6 inches

and Aaron's rod which budded

which were worn as a symbol of protection and good fortune

usually the scales are in the left hand and the sword in the right

Alabaster Bastet Statue - Made in Egypt Hera Statue 5cm / 9 inchesWidth: 15cmHand carved Egyptian Alabaster Cat Goddess Bastet statue. Bastet, 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