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Bast Cat, Large
The cat's first name in Egypt was 'Myeo' or 'Mau'. The ancient Egyptians held the cat in the highest esteem, its status evolved rapidly and it was eventually thought of as the guardian of the temple and was worshipped as a goddess.
The Egyptians had several other feline Goddesses, such as the lioness headed 'Sekhmet', but only 'Bast' was represented by the domesticated cat. Bast, a beneficient and kindly Goddess, was believed to be the daughter of 'Isis' and 'Ra', goddess of the Sun (It was believed that the glow from a cat's eyes held captive the light of the sun), the Moon, fertility, wisdom, and love. Bast presides over enchantment and protects her subjects from evil spirits and contagians. She is blessed with the powerful ability to heal. One version of her name, "Pasht," might have given rise to the English term "Puss."
Each Egyptian Statue is made from resin and is finished in a rich chesnut colour which is enhanced further with soft bronze and gold finishing. It gives the pieces a soft pearlescent sheen in the light.
Each item comes individually packaged in its own box.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 19cms
Sarcophagus, Small.
A sarcophagus is a stone coffin. Scholars believe that early limestone coffins had the properties to dissolve the body quickly, hence the translation of sarcophagus to "flesh eater." The earliest stone coffins in use among the Egyptians of the 3rd Dynasty were designed to represent palaces of mud brick architecture, with an ornamental arrangement of false doors and windows.
Detailed Dimensions: Length 10cms
Nefertiti Head.
With her husband, Akhenaten, Nefertiti raised six daughters but no sons. One of their daughters, Meket-Aten, died. Their mourning was shown on wall paintings. After the death of their daughter, Nefertiti disappeared from the court, and one of her other daughters took over her place as Akhenaten's Queen.
Each Egyptian Statue is made from resin and beautifully finished in bright gold, blues, greens and reds, all colours associated with Egyptian imagery.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 8cms
Sekhmet, Standing, Large.
The name of this goddess means the powerful one. She was the daughter of the sun-god, Ra, and the wife of Ptah. She is shown with the head of a lioness and the body of a woman, suggesting her great force and power, and her sometimes dangerous nature.
She could both bring plagues and protect people from them. In the Age of the Pyramids, Sekhmet was sometimes shown embracing the king, breathing divine life into his nostrils.
Each item is made from resin and coloured black with a soft polished finish.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 30cms
Khonsu, Small.
Khonsu was a moon-god and the son of Amon-Re and Mut. His name derives from the root, "khens" which means to travel, to move about, to run. He was usually portrayed as a man with the head of a hawk and wearing the lunar disk. He was also shown as a child with the sidelock of youth.
It was said that when Khonsu caused the cresent moon to shine, women conceived, cattle became fertile, and all nostrils and every throat were filled with fresh air.
Sphinx, Small.
In Egypt alone there are enough sphinxes that they have been categorized by type:
Viewed as protectors and guardians, the lesser sphinxes are often seen at temple entrances.
Detailed Dimensions: Length 8cms
Small Bast Cat.
Bastet was the proctress of cats. The Ancient Egyptians had a great respect for cats since they protected the grain from mice and rats. Killing a cat was punishable by death. When a cat died, the family mourned it, shaving their eyebrows to mark their sadness. Cats were sometimes mummified, like people, and their mummies have been found.
This jackal-headed god looked after the dead, and was in charge of the important task of mummification. Anubis can appear as either a black canine with long sharp ears, or as a man with a canine head.
The black colour of Anubis refers to the rich dark soil of Egypt, from which new growth came every year; in similar manner, the dead would come to new life after burial.
Detailed Dimensions: Length 9cms
Each Egyptian item is made from solid resin and has been finished in gold, red, green and turquoise, colours typically associated with Ancient Egyptian imagery.
Each item comes packaged individually in its own box.
The Egyptian Cat god Bast had a cult which was centered on her sanctuary at Bubastis in the delta region, where a necropolis has been found containing mummified cats. Bast was also associated with the 'eye of Re', acting as the instrument of the sun god's vengeance. She was depicted as a cat or in human form with the head of a cat, often holding the sacred rattle known as the sistrum.
Each Egyptian figure is made from solid resin and has been finished in gold, red, green and turquoise, colours typically associated with Ancient Egyptian imagery.
Sobek, the Egyptian crocodile god symbolized the might of the Egyptian pharaohs. He is found depicted as a crocodile or in human form with the head of a crocodile, crowned either by a pair of plumes or sometimes by a combination of the solar disk and the uraeus (cobra). Sobek was worshipped to appease him and his animals.
The feather of Ma'at was an ostrich plume. She wore it on her head. The chief judge in charge of the Egyptian law courts was known as the "priest of Ma'at". He began court hearings by wearing the feather of Ma'at. The judge gave the feather to the person who won his case in the law courts
Each figure is made from solid resin finished in a matt black effect.
Each item comes packaged individually.
The Egyptian Hieroglyphs is among the oldest writing system in the world. Unlike its contemporary cuneiform Sumerian, Egyptian Hieroglyphs origin is much more obscure.
Each Egyptian item is made from solid resin and finished in a matt black effect.
The Art of learning and thus reading and writing was one of the most powerful forces in the ancient Egyptian civilization. Almost all of our known knowledge about the ancient Egyptians came from the work and art of the ancient Egyptian scribe.
Canopic jars where containers (usually numbering four) found in ancient Egyptian tombs which stored organs and viscera which were believed to be essential for the dead person s existence in the afterlife.
Each scarab is made from solid resin and has been finished in bright golds, reds, blues and greens, colours typical of Egyptian imagery.
Standing Isis.
The name Isis means "seat" or "throne". She was regarded as the symbolical mother of the King. In myth, she sought her dead husband and brother, Osiris, conceived her son Horus by him, buried and mourned Osiris with her sister Nephtys.
Each Egyptian item is finished in bright golds, reds, blues and blacks, colours typically associated with Egyptian imagery.
Detailed Dimensions: Width 23cms, Height 19cms, Depth 7cms
Isis & Queen.
Isis (in Greek) was from Lower Egypt and stood for love, magic, motherhood, children, medicine and peace. She was first mentioned in writing in dynasty five pyramid texts and survived almost unchanged through Egyptian history. People ask her to make marriages happy, and with time she also joined the Osiris cult as his consort. She was the goddess with a throne upon her head and her name simply meant "seat".
Each Egyptian figure is finished in bright golds, reds, blues and blacks, colours typically associated with Egyptian imagery.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 16.5cms, Length 18cms
Sekmeth, Human Form.
Sekmeth means Mightly One, and she certainly lives up to her name. She was a sun goddess, representing the scorching, burning and destrutive heat of the sun.
She had an uncontrollable temper, which in the 'Legend of Ra and Hathor', if Ra had not taken pity of her would have destroyed all mankind due to her anger becoming so great. He soothed her by tricking her into drinking beer which had been dyed blood red. Thinking it was blood, she drank, became drunk and soon forgot her anger and we were all saved from destruction.
Each Egyptian Statue is beautifully finished in bright gold, blues, greens and reds, all colours associated with Egyptian imagery.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 17cms, Base 3cms x 3cms
Queen with Staff, Mutemonet.
Wife of the doctor Penzerti and mother to The Royal Scribe Amenmose. Very little else is known.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 16cms, Base 4cms x 3cms
Anubis, Laying.
Anubis, God of the Dead, depicted as a Jackal or Dog as they were often seen in cemeteries. The black colour represented comes from the colour of human corpses after they had undergone the embalming process.
Each Egyptian Statue is beautifully finished in bright gold, blues, greens, blacks and reds, all colours associated with Egyptian imagery.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 17.5cms, Length 20cms, Base 19cms x 5.5cms
Tutankhamun, (King Tut).
The most famous of all the kings found in the Valley of the Kings was Tutankhamun, also known as KingTut. He died in mid-January, 1343 B.C. It is thought that he was murdered by an official because his skull was bashed in and only a person of great importance could get near enough to harm him.
He is so famous because his tomb was in almost perfect condition. His tomb had been robbed once very soon after he was put in, but everything lost was replaced as soon as possible.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 27.5cms, Width 18.5cms, Base 15.5cms
She was famous throughout Ancient Egypt for her outstanding beauty, and is still one of the most recognisable icon associated with Ancient Egypt.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 24cms, Width 11cms, Base 10.5 x 7cms
Anubis Sarcophagus, complete with mummy inside.
Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Dead, represtended as a dog or jackel. He was the God who helped to embalm Osiris after he was killed by Seth, thus he was the God who watched over the process of mummifying people when they died.
Detailed Dimensions: Length 22cms, Height 9.5cms, Inner Mummy Length 17.5cms
Seated Egyptian Ruler, Ramasses and Queen Designs.
There were many Ramasses in Ancient Egyptian history, but only one can be considered as a truly Great King. Ramasses III was the second ruler of the 20th Dynasty, and is considered the last great Pharaoh on the throne. His reign was during a time of great turmoil in the Mediterranean, including the fall of the Mycenae and the Trojan War. he was also famous as a father, with at meast if not more than 10 sons.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 24cms, Base 10cms x 7cms
Please note when this item is low in stock not all designs may be available.
Egyptian Scribe.
Thoth was one of the earliest Egyptian Gods and among other duties was the God of writing and knowledge. He is believed to have written the spells in the Book of the Dead.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 7.5cms
Egyptian Scarab, with stylised hieroglyphics detail.
The Egyptian scarab is the image of a dung beetle and sacred to the sun god. Dung beetles lay eggs in a pellet which they roll along and the Egyptians regarded this action as an image of the sun and its course through the heavens, rolled by a gigantic beetle.
Detailed Dimensions: Length 7.5cms, Width 5.5cms, Height 4cms
Bast, Human Form, Large.
Bast, Egyptian goddess of sensual pleasure, protector of the household, bringer of health, and the guardian saint of firefighters, she was the original mistress of multi-tasking!
Also called Bastet, the goddess Bast is widely known today as the "Cat Goddess". Legend has it that, by day, Bast would ride through the sky with her father, the sun god Ra, his boat pulling the sun through the sky.
But by night, she was a different creature entirely. Bast transformed herself into a cat (renown for its superb night vision) to guard her father from Apep (also known as Apophis), a serpent who was her father's greatest enemy.
Horus, Human Form.
Horus deities are frequently depicted as hawks or hawk-headed men, though some are represented as fully human. The pharaoh was considered to be the Living Horus, the temporal stand-in for Horus in the earthly domain.
One of the best-preserved temples in Egypt today was dedicated to Horus. It is located in Upper Egypt at a town called Edfu.
Detailed Dimensions: Height 22cms
Nefertiti was the wife of Akhenaten. Nefertiti, which means "the beautiful woman has come" is one of the most famous and beloved of all ancient Egyptians. One of the best known Egyptian treasures is a bust of her that can be found in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin.
Each item is made from resin and finished in a soft polished black.
Each item comes packages individually.
When Horus was a baby, his father Osiris was killed by Seth. Horus and his mother Isis hid in the papyrus reeds in the delta of the Nile until Horus grew up. When he was old enough he went to war with Seth to get his father's crown and kingdom.
In the battle Seth managed to blind Horus by taking out his eye and tearing it to bits, but Thoth, the God of Wisdom, managed to heal the eye. Eventually, Horus won the war, and Seth was driven out into the Sahara Desert.
