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Chair or Bed Leg with the God Bes
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated 1540–1296 BCE. Recorded culture or place: Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18.
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- Museum title
- Chair or Bed Leg with the God Bes
- Date
- 1540–1296 BCE
- Culture / origin
- Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18
- Materials and technique
- tamarisk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 44.7 x 5.9 cm (17 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1982.42
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
The genial god Bes appears here in the form of a furniture leg. With hands on his pot belly and wearing a short kilt with a long apron, he stands bowlegged on a truncated cone base. He has long, upward sweeping, diagonal eyebrows, large eyes, full cheeks, and rounded ears, and he wears a full beard and mustache. His body is soft and unmuscular. As a household god, Bes figured prominently as a decorative motif both in royal and private dwellings.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Guerdon S. Holden Memorial Fund · CC0
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