Bes Amulet
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
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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