Bubastis

Also known as Tell-Basta, Per Bast

thumb|Map of ancient Lower Egypt showing Bubastis

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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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Contents

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
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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.