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Amulet of Bes
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (664–30 BCE)
- Medium
- Faience
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 7 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm (2 3/4 × 1 × 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Africa
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson, Henry H. Getty, and Norman W. Harris
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The dwarf Bes, with his feathered headdress, lion mane and tail, and protruding tongue, was the protector of women and children. Huge numbers of amulets were made of him in the Ptolemaic period.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
