Bes Amulet

Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker

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First Millennium BCE (1000 BCE-1 CE)

Faience

Overall: 1 9/16 × 13/16 in. (4 × 2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Emily Howe Hitchcock, Class of 1872HW

12.2.487

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

Course History

ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014

ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014

Provenance

Collected by Mary Maynard Hitchcock (1834-1887) and Hiram Hitchcock (1832-1900, Class of 1872H), in Egypt (possibly from a dealer in Alexandria or Cairo), about 1867-68; bequeathed to his second wife, Emily Howe Hitchcock (1852-1912), Hanover, New Hampshire, 1900; bequeathed to present collection, 1912.

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