3615924 Cat Statuette intended to contain a mummified cat, 332-30 B.C (leaded bronze) by Egyptian Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC); 27.4 high cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: The cat was the sacred animal of the goddess Bastet, a great and benevolent Egyptian goddess. In her honour, mummified cats, sometimes in impressive bronze or wooden containers, were donated at her temples, of which the most important were located at Bubastis and Saqqara. The mummies were then buried within her temple precincts. ); Egyptian, out of copyright.