Pantheistic Bes

ca. 250-100 BCE (Greco-Roman)

13 cm 25.2 cm 9.9 cm

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This depicts a composite deity who has the attributes, and therefore the powers, of several different gods. The face of the god Bes, the twin plumes and ram horns of Amun's crown, the head of an ibis crowned by the crescent and full moon of Thoth, and several snakes and crocod...

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10883
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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4
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