Bubastis
Sign in to savethumb|Map of ancient Lower Egypt showing Bubastis
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Tell-Basta
- Ancient site.image
- Bubastis 011.JPG
- Ancient site.caption
- View of Bubastis
- Ancient site.map_type
- Egypt
- Ancient site.location
- Tell-Basta, Sharqia Governorate, Egypt
- Ancient site.region
- Lower Egypt
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.condition
- In ruins
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Article
19 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Cult of Bastet
- History
- Early Bronze Age
- Second Dynasty
- Fourth Dynasty
- Sixth Dynasty
- Middle Bronze Age
- Twelfth Dynasty
- Second Intermediate Period
- Late Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Twenty-Second Dynasty
- Persian rule and decline
- Christian bishopric
- Excavations
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Map of ancient Lower Egypt showing Bubastis
Bubastis (Bohairic Coptic: Poubasti; Greek: Boubastis or Boubastos), also known in Arabic as Tell-Basta or in Egyptian as Per-Bast, was an ancient Egyptian city. Bubastis is often identified with the biblical Pi-Beseth ( py-bst, Ezekiel 30:17). It was the capital of its own nome, located along the River Nile in the Delta region of Lower Egypt, and notable as a center of worship for the feline goddess Bastet, and therefore the principal depository in Egypt of mummies of cats.