The Gayer-Anderson Cat is a statue of a cat made out of bronze, from the Late Period, about 664–332 BC. The sculpture is known as the Gayer-Anderson cat after Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, the man who discovered it in Cairo, Egypt. He donated the statue to the British Musuem. The statue is a representation of the cat-goddess Bastet. The cat wears jewellery and a protective wedjat amulet. A winged scarab appears on the chest and head, it is 42 cm high and 13 cm wide.