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THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1069-664 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE GLAZED COMPOSITION BES
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1069-664 B.C.
The dwarf god standing with bared teeth wearing feather crown; together with an Egyptian Ptaichos, wearing ram-horned uraeus crown surmounted by double plumes and sun disc; an Egyptian Bes; a recumbent ibex attachment; four wedjat-eyes, all circa 1st Millennium B.C.; and a Romano-Egyptian scarab, details in greenish-yellow glaze, circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high max (9)
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1069-664 B.C.
The dwarf god standing with bared teeth wearing feather crown; together with an Egyptian Ptaichos, wearing ram-horned uraeus crown surmounted by double plumes and sun disc; an Egyptian Bes; a recumbent ibex attachment; four wedjat-eyes, all circa 1st Millennium B.C.; and a Romano-Egyptian scarab, details in greenish-yellow glaze, circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high max (9)
Provenance
Baron Empain collection (1852-1929), France.