Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Bes Late Period to Ptolemaic PeriodThebes (Deir el-Bahri), Egypt
Description
Object Label: The Egyptians worked with gold and semiprecious stones from earliest times. They mined both types of material in the desert east of the Nile and in present-day Sudan, called “Nubia” in ancient times after the ancient Egyptian word for gold (nub). Clearly, objects made from these high-value materials were available only to the highest ranks of society. Caption: Bes, 664–30 B.C.E.. Gold, 1 1/2 x 9/16 x 1/16 in. (3.8 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.208. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.208 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3250 tier-2
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