1943.1044: Standing Statuette of the God Bes

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.1044

Title

Standing Statuette of the God Bes

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

statuette, sculpture

Date

2nd century CE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Egypt (Ancient)

Period

Roman Imperial period

Culture

Egyptian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/291720

Location

Location

Level 3, Room 3740, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Egypt: Art for Eternity

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Physical Descriptions

Medium

Faience

Technique

Molded

Dimensions

28 x 12 x 9 cm (11 x 4 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Grenville L. Winthrop, NY (by 1943), bequest; to The Fogg Museum of Art.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1044

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Dows Dunham, "The Egyptian Antiquities", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum (1943), Vol. 10, No. 2, 40-43, p. 40.
• Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 256 (checklist).
• Stephen R. Wilk, Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, NY, 2000), p. 63, fig. 4.4

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 3740 Egyptian, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/01/2022 - 05/01/2026

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