Enthroned Bastet

Numerous Bastet amulets are erroneously described as Sekhmet ones. They are namely lioness-headed enthroned goddesses playing sistra. Openwork enthroned ones of the Third Intermediate period with Nehebu-kau on the sides of their thrones were placed on shrines

Faded blue glaze
H 5.7, W 1.8, D 3.5
The Oriental Institute
of the University of
Chicago #1892.51