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>>87560 I think the "Microsoft argument" had at least a touch of sarcasm in it.
As for the pictures, who knows? I just did a Google Image Search for "bastet" and looked for images where at least one of the dimensions had four digits. *shrug*
And when it comes to a "real deal", I don't think you're going to find any definitive, canonical visual image of her, even if you travelled to Egypt and found some people there who still worshipped the Egyptian pantheon. Most artists - from whatever region and whatever religion - didn't have a perfect guide as to how they should depict their deities. Rather, all they had was a general description. The artists would take that and let their muses guide them into making something that looked good. Therefore, the only definitive description of Bast(et) would be "Egyptian woman with a cat's head". Now, you could try to be more precise and figure out what kind of cats lived in Egypt centuries ago and limit yourself to that if you wanted your own opinion of what's a definitive image of her, but in the long run, I'd say any woman with a cat's head and wearing Egyptian clothing could be considered "the real deal" when it comes to Bast(et).
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