Queen Berenike worship of Bastet
01/17/2010
Recent excavations of the temple of Queen Berenike, wife of Ptolemy III, revealed a great deal of statuary, including a somewhat surprising number of representations of the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. This suggests that the Ptolemaics followed the Roman habit of adopting the local gods rather than replacing them with their own.
The news is covered by all the usual web sites, and while we can't name any as definitive, some of the best photographs are here.