Bes with offerings

Classification

statuette ; votive offering?

Culture

Graeco-Egyptian (culture)

Dimensions

height: 12.1 cm

Period

Roman Imperial Period (Egypt, 30 B.C. – 395 A.D.)

Material

clay

Iconography

Bes ; feather crown ; bread, loaf of ; jug

Production place

Egypt

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.506

ID

Hyp-1022

References

Oroszlán 1930, 72, D 81; Castiglione, in ActaAntHung 5 (1957), 220–227, fig. 6; Török 1995, 33–34, no. 11; Szilágyi J. Gy. 1988a, 118, fig. 114; Frankfurter 1998, 90, 136