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Pottery amulet of Bes on a lotus flower, with smaller figure of Bes between his legs; seated on the feathered headress of the latter is a figure of Horus as a child. Larger figure of Bes has a monkey on either shoulder, and is crowned with five feathers. There are four holes between the feathers, as though the object were to be suspended. Broken in two.
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- ID
- EMC_JE_15294
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- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Amulets and pendants
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- Findspot
- Giza
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- Material
- Pottery (glazed ceramic)
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- Dimensions
- JE: 10 cm; CG: 11.5 cm
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- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Catalogue General number
- EMC_CG_38729
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_3/5442
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- Object owned by
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Notes
- Found May 1861
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- Remarks
- RELATED MEDIA: EMC_JE_II_Sp198-199LR; EMC_CG_038001-039384_187LR; EMC_CG_038001-039384_PL040; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_CG_38729
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Daressy, Georges. Catalogue general des antiquites egyptiennes du Musee du Caire. Nos. 38001-39384. Statues de divinites. 1906. 187. ; Maspero, Gaston. Catalogue, no. 4595.
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- Type Object owned by
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