# Chair or Bed Leg with the God Bes

- Date: 1540–1296 BCE
- Medium: tamarisk
- Classification: Furniture and woodwork
- Dimensions: Overall: 44.7 x 5.9 cm (17 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)
- Culture: Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18
- Credit line: Guerdon S. Holden Memorial Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.42)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.42/1982.42_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.