SculptureEgyptian7th-1st century BCE
The God Bes
mid 7th-late 1st century BCE
Dimensions
8.5 x 2.2 cm (3 3/8 x 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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