This deity names a vassal king whom Piye (“pee-yay”) relieved at Heracleopolis and a rebel of the Dakhla oasis who alternately titles the Inaros Cycle. This deity names a city whose Sed Festival Gateway depicts a king identified with Zerah the Cushite. This deity’s namesake portal at Karnak’s Temple of Amun records conquests by Shoshenq I that may corroborate Shishak’s sack of Judah in Second Chronicles. Meshwesh pharaohs built up Tanis and this deity’s namesake Nile delta cult center near Zagazig, which alternately names the Libyan 22nd Dynasty. Polyaenus claims that sheep, dogs, ibises, and this deity’s totem shielded Cambyses II’s troops at Pelusium. This Egyptian goddess was called “Ailuros” in Greece, where her sacred animal supplanted ferrets. For 10 points, bones from Cyprus suggest that Egyptians did not domesticate what goddess’s sacred cats? ■END■
ANSWER: Bast [or Bastet, Pasht, bst, B’sst, Baset, or Ubasti; accept Ailuros until read; accept Bubastis, Tell Basta, Poubasti, Per-Bast, Pi-Beset, Bubastite dynasty, Bubastite Portal, Petubastis, or Peftjauawybast; prompt on Sekhmet, Sachmis, Saḫmat, or Sakhmi by asking “which form of Sekhmet?”]
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