The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Egyptian Art
Aegis of Bastet
Maker not identified
- Date
- 664–30 B.C.
- Medium
- Cupreous metal
- Dimensions
- H. 4.3 cm (1 11/16 in.); W. 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.); D. 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.)
- Object type
- Amulet, Aegis, Bastet
- Period
- Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
- Country
- Egypt
- Object number
- 89.2.597
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889
- Gallery
- 134
Subjects and terms
- Goddess
The Met object ID 570661. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.