- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; faience seated Bes figurine, coloured brown with traces of green. Perforated through the head. Used to bring happiness and luck. [ASh [OPS move] 01/12/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1928
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Faience Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Glazed, Process Moulded
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 10 mm, Width: max 21 mm, Length: max 45 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1586 Other numbers: A 70469 R 30006 60
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