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Amulet of the God Bes New KingdomSaqqara

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.711E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.711E
Find spot: Saqqara, Egypt approx. site location
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1390–1322 B.C.E.
Date range: 1390 BCE – 1322 BCE
Materials: ['Electrum']
Height: 3.3 cm
Width: 1.7 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Amulet of the God Bes (37.711E). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/19493

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Caption: Amulet of the God Bes, ca. 1390–1322 B.C.E.. Electrum, 1 5/16 x 11/16 x 5/16 in. (3.3 x 1.7 x 0.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.711E.

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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

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Found at Saqqara

Deities Bes

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.711E tier-2
BKM-Object 4085 tier-2

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