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Description: | A hollow, mouldmade terracotta figurine, manufactured in two halves and representing Bes riding a horse. The back is unmodelled. The horse stands with his front leg raised the head is turned to the right, towards the viewer. The rider's head is missing but the back section would suggest that the subject wore a crown. He is naked apart from a cloak over his right shoulder; in the left hand is an amphora. There are traces of plaster on teh back of the figure and what appears to be an ancient mend at the bottom: a sherd is plastered in the position to fill a hole Nile silt clay. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Ptolemaic Period; start=-305; end=-30 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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