Running free: the wild cats; Together at last: the domestic cats; A poor man's lion: the divine cats; Pride goes before a fall: the story cats; Buried with full honours: the mummified cats; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
Cats can be seen in ancient Egyptian homes, temples and adorning the heads of their gods. Cats in Egypt were probably domesticated by around 4,000 BC from wild ancestors. Over the following centuries, they became popular household pets. In this book, Dr Malek draws on a vast range of artistic and written sources to show how cats became one of the most widely esteemed and revered animals in Egypt.
Dr Jaromir Malek is Keeper of the Archive at the Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Editor of the Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts. His publications include the Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt (with John Baines), revised edn 2000.
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