LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: Bes
Vessel in the Form of Bes in the Virginia Museum o…
16 Nov 2019 |
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Vessel in the form of the God Bes (Primary Title)
Unknown (Artist)
Date: 650-550 BC
Culture: Egyptian
Category: Ceramics, Containers-Vessels
Medium: faience
Collection: Ancient Art
Dimensions: Overall: 5 5/8 × 3 25/32 × 3 3/8 in. (14.29 × 9.6 × 8.57 cm)
Object Number: 93.110
The animal-headed god Bes was a household deity who guided women and children through the perils of pregnancy, childbirth, and infancy. This Bes wears a leopard skin arranged around his neck, a feature that appeared during the Nubian rule of Egypt (Dynasty 25). This vessel once had a lid in the form of Bes’s tall feathered headdress.
Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8177537
Vessel in the Form of Bes in the Virginia Museum o…
16 Nov 2019 |
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Vessel in the form of the God Bes (Primary Title)
Unknown (Artist)
Date: 650-550 BC
Culture: Egyptian
Category: Ceramics, Containers-Vessels
Medium: faience
Collection: Ancient Art
Dimensions: Overall: 5 5/8 × 3 25/32 × 3 3/8 in. (14.29 × 9.6 × 8.57 cm)
Object Number: 93.110
The animal-headed god Bes was a household deity who guided women and children through the perils of pregnancy, childbirth, and infancy. This Bes wears a leopard skin arranged around his neck, a feature that appeared during the Nubian rule of Egypt (Dynasty 25). This vessel once had a lid in the form of Bes’s tall feathered headdress.
Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8177537
Stele with Bes and Beset in the Louvre, June 2013
27 Jun 2016 |
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Stele: Bes and his companion Beset
Late Period, 664-332 BC
Limestone (formerly painted)
H. 31.70 cm; W. 22.50 cm; D. 9 cm
Inventory # E 11138
Text from: cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=20280&langue=en
Cypriot Limestone Bes in the Metropolitan Museum o…
18 May 2011 |
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Title: Limestone Bes
Medium; Technique: Limestone
Culture: Cypriot
Period: Cypro-Archaic II
Date: late 6th–early 5th century B.C.
Dimensions: Overall: 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (14 x 8.3 x 7 cm)
Classification: Stone Sculpture
Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number: 74.51.2611
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...
Cypriot Terracotta Lamp with the Egyptian God Bes…
09 Oct 2010 |
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Title: Lamp representing Bes
Medium; Technique: Terracotta; mold-made and hand-made
Culture: Cypriot
Period: Cypro-Archaic II
Date: end of the 6th century B.C.
Dimensions: H. 9 3/8 in. (23.3 cm)
Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number: 74.51.2364
On View
Description:
A small lamp with a short nozzle and flat rim is embedded in a deeper bowl and attached to a vertical handle decorated on the front with a figure of Bes. Incised in the Cypriot syllabary on the rim of the lamp is the inscription "of Philotimos," who was perhaps the maker or owner.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...
Stela of the God Bes in the Metropolitan Museum of…
26 Nov 2008 |
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Stela of the God Bes
Late Dynastic- Early Roman Periods,
4th century BC- 1st century AD
Limestone, paint
Accession # 22.2.23
Bes waves a knife in one hand and in the other grasps a snake, whose long tail curls up toward a round shape, probably the god's tambourine. A hole remains where a large erect phallus would have been inserted. Considerable traces of paint remain; the characteristic lines on the god's face and curls on his beard may have been added in paint.
A few limestone reliefs and terracottas of this type exist. One in Amsterdam comes from the "Bes Chambers" excavated in the Anubeion at Saqqara. The Bes chambers are decorated with large terracotta wall reliefs of Bes with a large phallus and accompanied by a smaller female figure. They are theorized to be places where pilgrims came to stay and sleep in order to receive divinely inspired dreams. a practice known as "incubation," prophesizing fecundity. This relief could have functioned in such a place, or it could have the same beneficial effect in a less specialized context.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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