Ancient Egyptian Cat Drawings
A cat with a shepherd s crook and a bag over his shoulder guards six geese and a nest of eggs.
Ancient egyptian cat drawings. The deity mut was also depicted as a cat and in the company of a cat. In ancient egypt domesticated cats were useful for getting rid of vermin like rats mice and snakes especially cobras. The eleventh hour print. More from this artist similar designs.
Ancient cat letters drawing. The goddess bastet which had a cat s head was one of the many gods in egypt s polytheistic religion and had her own temple in bubastis in the nile delta. Even more notable is the fact that most elements of egyptian art remained intact and stable for over 3 000 years with no significant outside influences. From some of the most beautiful depictions of ancient wars to the symbolic representation of religion.
An illustration of an egyptian cat design eye of horus black egyptian cat pyramids head of nefertiti ancient egypt set collection icons in black style vector. The ancient egyptian cat drawing. Cats in ancient egypt were represented in social and religious practices of ancient egypt for more than 3 000 years. The feline queen drawing.
They were often kept as pets and mummified. Cats are often seen in paintings. Junko k junko. 1 41.
More from this artist similar designs. Ancient egyptian art has an almost 5 000 year old history and boasts many extremely symbolic and fascinating paintings and sculptures. Rainbow cat face vector black and white cat face vector. A saite 26th dynasty period 664 525 bc bronze art work of an egyptian cat playing with one of her kittens and feeding another.
Symbol stock illustration rainbow cat face vector sacred animal of ancient egypt mystical cat face with egyptian hieroglyphic symbols hand drawn egyptian c. From the cairo museum. The jackal was used mainly to represent the god of the afterlife anubis the jackal is a common animal seen in ancient egyptian art. The ancient egyptians adored cats because cats protected their stores of food from rats snakes and mice.
Get 10 free shutterstock images pick10free. Several ancient egyptian deities were depicted and sculptured with cat like heads such as mafdet bastet and sekhmet representing justice fertility and power. Unknown 118 cat guarding geese c1120 bc egypt. Drawing on limestone of a scene from a fable ancient egyptian 19th dynasty c1120 bc.
The wall painting from the tomb of inher kha which shows the sun god battling apep is from the new kingdom which is. Since the sun god ra was the greatest enemy of apep apophis the evil cobra god of darkness it makes since to me that cats would be associated with ra.