Bes Amulet
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
First Millennium BCE (1000 BCE-1 CE)
Faience, stone
Overall: 1 5/8 × 9/16 × 1/4 in. (4.2 × 1.5 × 0.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26005
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
Exhibition History
Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.
Provenance
Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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