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Exclusively designed for the British Museum, a silk scarf featuring an ancient Egyptian Cat design.
The design of this teal scarf features sillhouettes of Egyptian cat statues alongside ankhs, birds and other hieroglyph symbols.
Sacred to the ancient Egyptians, cats were particularly important to the goddess Bast (Bastet). She was often depicted as having the body of a woman and the head of a cat. Bastet was so highly regarded by the Egyptians that she became a household goddess as the protector of women, children and domestic cats. She was also the goddess of sunrise, music, dance and pleasure as well as family, fertility and birth.
The hieroglyphs in this design have been taken from the limestone false door of the High Priest Ptahshepses, now housed in the British Museum. In the Old Kingdom, false doors were a standard feature of tombs in the Memphite region, acting as an interface between the worlds of the living and the afterlife. The façade is covered with texts giving good wishes for the afterlife.
A beautiful gift for a history lover.
DIMENSIONS:
L156 x W25cm
MATERIAL:
100% silk