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Bes

Bes

1st century B.C. - 1st century A.D.

Terracotta
4 3/4 x 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. (12.1 x 7.3 x 6.1 cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
47.86
Provenance: [Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, New York]; purchased by Seattle Art Museum (with funds from Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection), June 9, 1947
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Published ReferencesTeeter, Emily, Egyptian Art in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1988, no. 16, p. 25

Teeter, Emily, The Egyptian Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, in KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall 2001, illus. p. 27 (full page)

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