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BUBASTIS
BUBASTIS. Greek name for the Egyptian city of Per-Bastet, capital of
the 18th nome of Lower Egypt, now Tell Basta. The principal deity
worshipped in Bubastis was the cat-headed or lioness-headed goddess
Bastet. Remains have been found from the Old Kingdom, but
the town was most prominent in Dynasty 22, which is said to have
originated there. It was excavated by a British expedition from the
Egypt Exploration Fund from 1887–1889 and by Egyptian Egyptologists,
notably Labib Habachi in 1939 and from 1943–1944,
Shafik Farid from 1961–1967, Ahmad el-Sawi from 1967–1971, and
more recently Muhammad Bakr since 1978 and a joint expedition of
Zagazig University and Potsdam University since 1996
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