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Cat

CultureEgyptian
Date8th-1st century B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 12 1/4 inches (31.11 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number41-13
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History
Egyptian Art under the Greeks and Romans, 332 B.C. to A.D. 330 , Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, September 26-November 15, 1987, no. 130.
Provenance

With Spink & Son, Ltd., London, by March 1941;

Purchased from Spink & Son by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.

Published References
Advertisement, The Connoisseur 107, no. 474 (March 1941): x, (repro.), as Bronze Figure of a Cat; Sacred to Bast.
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