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(Boubastis) or Bubastus (Boubastas). The capital of the Nomos Bubastites in Lower Egypt, which stood on the eastern bank of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, and was the chief seat of the worship of the goddess Bubastis (Pasht), whom the Greeks identified with Artemis, and who was regarded as the daughter of Ra and bride of Ptah, symbolizing the sexual passion. More than 70,000 persons sometimes took part in her festivals at this place. Here also the cats sacred to Bubastis were buried. The modern name of the city is Tel Bast. Here in 1887 the French explorer, M. Naville, discovered the ruins of the great temple of Bubastis, and further excavations in 1888 showed the city to have been a very important place under the Hyksos.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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