Bastet provides written evidence for this. The inscription suggests that the king (Amenhotep III) was personally present at the event and had great offerings made to the deity. Bastet first appears in the third millennium BC, where she is depicted as either a fierce lioness or a woman with the head of a lioness. Then some time during the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt (c. 1070–712 BC), Bastet was changed into a cat goddess, and was depicted as a domestic cat or a cat-headed woman from that point onward. Scribes of the New Kingdom and later eras began referring to her
The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch The prince spied on the girl. She went a pitcher and a water jug to fetch her water. The water-jug broke the pitcher, the pitcher asked her to beat it, and the water-jug begged her not to "by the head of Buk Ettemsuch." She said if only her husband had said that, she could speak to him. He jumped up and told her to speak to him "by the head of Buk Ettemsuch." They lived happily after. The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch is a fairy tale from northern Africa, collected by Hans von Stumme in