An Egyptian Faience Bes Plaque, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Price - Over $10000 Non-functional and purely ceremonial

Non-functional and purely ceremonial

The association of the subject with Merit-Aten is supported by stylistic parallels to reliefs from Hermopolis

which does not occur before the Twenty-sixty Dynasty

he served in Washington

the lower part of this pendant is an example of how the celt shape was integrated into prized personal ornaments

An Egyptian Faience Bes Plaque, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Price - Over $10000 Non-functional and purely ceremonialA finely carved rectangular faience plaque depicting the frontal face of Bes, the apotropaic dwarf god associated with protection, childbirth, and household well being. The deity is shown with his characteristic grotesque features, leonine mane, and radiating feathered crown. Amulets and plaques bearing the image of Bes were widely worn in ancient Egypt as protective devices, believed to ward off malevolent forces and safeguard the wearer,