Bes Amulet

Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker

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First Millennium BCE (1000 BCE-1 CE)

Faience, dark brown

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Harold Goddard Rugg, Class of 1906

164.47.15541

Geography

Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa

Period

1000 BCE-1 CE

Object Name

Personal Symbol: Amulet

Research Area

Ancient Egypt

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Harold Goddard Rugg (1883-1957, Class of 1906); given to present collection, date unknown; catalogued, 1964.

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