Egyptian Cat Pencil Topper - Pewter

Product Description: This Egyptian Cat pencil topper is made from lead-free pewter and is a 3D model of an Egyptian Cat. It is supplied on a 13cm black wooden pencil with the Egyptian hieroglyphic alphabet printed on it in gold.

Information: The cat was sacred to the Egyptian goddess of love, fertility and joy, Bast or Bastet. These cats were characteristically upright yet at rest, confident of their power and beauty. The worship of Bast dates from at least 4000BC, reaching its height around 1500BC when thousands of pilgrims poured into the temple at Bubastis to take part in the annual festival.

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language.