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ID number: ECM 117 Named collection: The Eton Myers Collection Title / Object name: Bes Amulet Object type: Amulet Culture: Egyptian Date made: Third Intermediate Period (c. 1076 - 723 BC) Collector: Myers, William Joseph Materials: Faience (blue) Measurements: overall: 4.21 cm x 4.41 cm x 1.47 cm (H x W x D) Provenance: Unknown |
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Flat-backed amulet of a frontally facing Bes head. Details of the face modelled. Bes sticks his tongue out from beneath a thick beard/mane. The plumed headress has broken away, although the remains of a transverse piercing through its base can still be seen. The reverse is undecorated. Bibliography: For further discussion of amulets, see: Notes: Amulets depicting the god Bes first appeared during the 18th Dynasty, although the iconography of Bes can be seen in earlier Middle Kingdom ivory knives/wands. Amulets of Bes remained popular into the Roman Period and exhibit a number of variations. |
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Myers, William Joseph British 1858-08 1899-10-30 |
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