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BUBASTIS , the Graecized name of the See also:Egyptian goddess Ubasti, meaning " she of [the See also:city] Bast " (B;s-t), a city better known by its later name, P-ubasti, " See also:place of Ubasti "; thus the goddess derived her name Ubasti from her city (Bast), and in turn the city derived its name P-ubasti from that of the goddess; the Greeks, confusing the name of the city with that of the goddess, called the latter Bubastis, and the former also Bubastis (later Bubastos). Bubastis, See also:capital of the 19th See also:nome of See also:Lower See also:Egypt, is now represented by a See also:great See also:mound of ruins called Tell Basta, near See also:Zagazig, including the site of a large See also:temple (described by See also:Herodotus) strewn with blocks of See also:granite. The monuments discovered there, although only those in hard See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone have survived, are more important than at any other site in the See also:Delta except Tanis and See also:cover a wider range, commencing with Khufu (See also:Cheops) and continuing to the thirtieth See also:dynasty.
Ubasti was one of many feline goddesses, figured with the See also:head of a lioness. In the great development of reverence for sacred animals which took place after the New See also:Kingdom, the domestic See also:cat was especially the See also:animal of Bubastis, although it had also to serve for all the other feline goddesses, owing no doubt to the scarcity and intractability of its congeners. Her See also:hieratic and most See also:general See also:form was still lioness-headed, but a popular form, especially in See also:bronze, was a cat-headed See also:women, often holding in her right See also:hand a See also:lion See also:aegis, i.e. a broad semicircular See also:pectoral surmounted by the head of a lioness, and on the See also:left See also:arm a See also:basket. The cat See also:cemetery on the See also:west See also:side of the See also:town consisted of See also:numbers of large See also:brick See also:chambers, crammed with burnt and decayed mummies, many of which had been enclosed in cat-shaped cases of See also:wood and bronze. Herodotus describes the festival of Bubastis, which was attended by thousands from all parts of Egypt and was a very riotous affair; it has its See also:modern See also:equivalent in the Moslem iestival of the See also:sheikh Said el Badawi at See also:Tanta. The tablet of See also:Canopus shows that there were two festivals of Bubastis, the great and the lesser: perhaps the lesser festival was held at See also:Memphis, where the See also:quarter called Ankhto contained a temple to this goddess. Her name is found on monuments from the third dynasty onwards, but a great stimulus was given to her See also:worship by the twenty-second (Bubastite) dynasty and generally by the increased importance of Lower Egypt in later times. Her See also:character seems to have been essentially mild and playful, in contrast to Sokhmi and other feline goddesses. The Greeks equated Ubasti with their See also:Artemis, confusing her with the leonine Tafne, See also:sister of Shoou (See also:Apollo). The Egyptians themselves delighted in identifying together goddesses of the most diverse forms and attributes; but Ubasti was almost indistinguishable in form from Tafne. The name of her son Iphthimis (Nfr-tm), pronounced Eftem, may mean " All-See also:good," and, in the See also:absence of other See also:information about him, suggests a See also:reason why he was identified with See also:Prometheus.
See K. Sethe in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopddie; E. Naville, Bubastis, and Festival See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall of Osorkon II.; Herodotus ii. 67, 137-156; Grenfell and See also:Hunt, Hibeh Papyri, i. (F. Li.
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Additional information and Comments
Dear Sirs,
Herewith I should like to "update" your article about the old city of Bubastis.
Quite recently an archaeological team from Potsdam (Germany) discovered the remains
of an enormous statue of an Egyptian queen. After cleaning of the hieroglyphic
text on the back of the statue it proved to be Queen Meryt-Amun, daughter of
Ramesses II. This colossal statue is to be re-erected by the Egyptian authorities.
The statue consists of granite from Aswan and weighs over 80 tons! According to the
director of the German team, Dr.Christian Tietze, it will be the biggest statue ever
found in the Nile Delta, up till now.
Source: historical Institute of the University of Potsdam (through Internet).
With kind regards, Mr.Jan Brakenhoff, egyptologist, Voorschoten, Netherlands.
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