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Information
Fragment of an amulet in the shape of the god Bes.
CONDITION NOTE 1998: Incomplete, surface dirt, worn.
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum no. 78196: PARTS OF FIGURES, (48) (of gods and amulets) Faience, various coloured glazes. From ½" to 2". ex. Tabor Collection. Egyptian. Purchased at Sotheby's 12 November 1928 for £2 by Mr Wilkes on behalf of Henry Wellcome (ex Tabor collection) Lot 228 "A number of broken Amulets; a Figure of Bes, fine; and two lion Amulets".
Specifications
- Accession number
- 1973.1.84.21
- Collection type
- Religion
- Culture
- Late Period
- Date made
- 664 BC - 332 BC
- Collector
- Charles James Tabor
- Place collected
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt
- Date collected
- 1928 before
- Materials
- Egyptian Faience
- Credit line
- Gift of the Trustees of the Wellcome Collection
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Provenance
- Location
- Item not currently on display
- Publications