Bastet or Bast is a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion, worshipped as early as the Second Dynasty. Her name also is rendered as B'sst, Baast, Ubaste, and Baset. In ancient Greek religion, she was known as Ailuros.
Wadjet-Bastet, with a lioness head, the solar disk, and the cobra that represents Wadjet
Statue of Bastet, in her hands she holds a sistrum
Bastet, Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur, India
An Eighteenth Dynasty burial artifact from the tomb of Tutankhamun (c. 1323 BC), an alabaster cosmetic jar topped with a lioness representing Bastet — Cairo Museum
Bubastis, also known in Arabic as Tell-Basta or in Egyptian as Per-Bast, was an ancient Egyptian city. Bubastis is often identified with the biblical Pi-Beseth. It was the capital of its own nome, located along the River Nile in the Delta region of Lower Egypt, and notable as a center of worship for the feline goddess Bastet, and therefore the principal depository in Egypt of mummies of cats.
View of Bubastis
Hathor capital from the Temple of Bubastis in the collection of the British Museum
Relief of the pharaoh Amenhotep II, made of red granite. It depicts the pharaoh worshiping the god Amun. From the 18th Dynasty, circa 1430 BC, with an additional inscription by Seti I (circa 1290 BC). Originally from Bubastis, British Museum.
Upper part, figure of an official of Amenhotep III, from a double statue. From Bubastis (Tell-Basta), Egypt. From the Amelia Edwards Collection. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
