Ancient Egyptian Cat Drawings

Cats are often seen in paintings.

Ancient egyptian cat drawings. Ancient cat letters drawing. The ancient egyptian cat drawing. Drawing on limestone of a scene from a fable ancient egyptian 19th dynasty c1120 bc. They were often kept as pets and mummified.

A saite 26th dynasty period 664 525 bc bronze art work of an egyptian cat playing with one of her kittens and feeding another. 1 41. Unknown 118 cat guarding geese c1120 bc egypt. The feline queen drawing.

The jackal was used mainly to represent the god of the afterlife anubis the jackal is a common animal seen in ancient egyptian art. More from this artist similar designs. More from this artist similar designs. Several ancient egyptian deities were depicted and sculptured with cat like heads such as mafdet bastet and sekhmet representing justice fertility and power.

Get 10 free shutterstock images pick10free. More from this artist similar designs. From the cairo museum. The eleventh hour print.

Ancient egyptian art has an almost 5 000 year old history and boasts many extremely symbolic and fascinating paintings and sculptures. 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. Junko k junko. 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.

In ancient egypt domesticated cats were useful for getting rid of vermin like rats mice and snakes especially cobras. A cat with a shepherd s crook and a bag over his shoulder guards six geese and a nest of eggs. Egyptian cat art. From some of the most beautiful depictions of ancient wars to the symbolic representation of religion.

The deity mut was also depicted as a cat and in the company of a cat. Symbol stock illustration rainbow cat face vector sacred animal of ancient egypt mystical cat face with egyptian hieroglyphic symbols hand drawn egyptian c. Most downloads size popular. 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.

The ancient egyptians adored cats because cats protected their stores of food from rats snakes and mice. 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.