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Smiling Egyptian cat-goddess Bast

 

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Title:
Smiling Egyptian cat-goddess Bast
Date of Original:
1933-1934
Identifier:
COP_17_0002_00022_019.tif
Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d3m03xx4q
Type:
Image
Notes:
Some description was generated by students in Grade 5.
Caption:
The smiling Egyptian cat-goddess Bast. Made in lapis-lazuli and adorned with golden earrings. Ptolemaic, Egyptian, 3rd Century B.C. Exhibited in the North Wing Hall of Religion at the Century of Progress.


Rights:
In copyright
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic
Sculpture
Cats
Religion
Earrings
Bast (Egyptian deity)

Form:
Photographs
Color:
Black and white

Exhibit:
Hall of Religion

Collection Information


Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Series:
Series 17: Iconographics
Box:
2
Folder:
22
Repository:
University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Manuscript Collections
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library

Acknowledgements


Acknowledgements
Funded by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant awarded by the Illinois State Library under Jesse White
Secretary of State.

Geographic Information

Near South Side (Chicago, Ill.)