EGYPTIAN FAIENCE NEW YEAR'S FLASK WITH BES
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Ca. 660-525 BC A faience New Year's flask of a lentoid body with twin arched handles flanking the trumpet-shaped spout. One side is decorated with a design of four wedjat-eye motifs and the other with Bes - the god of weddings, dances, and family, guardian of women giving birth and children. A popular domestic deity to ward off malicious demons. This kind of flasks may once have been filled with perfume, oil, or water from the Nile, and it would have been a gift associated with the festive season at the beginning of the new year when the Nile began to flood.Size: L:57mm / W:39.4mm ; 37.3gProvenance: Acquired from a Belgium collector in 2006; formerly in an old French collection since the 1960s.
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EGYPTIAN FAIENCE NEW YEAR'S FLASK WITH BES
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