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The naked dwarf god, with wide head and thick hair. He is wearing feather crown on his head. Bandy short legs. At the back there is a perforation for the amulet string.

It is well preserved.

Catalogue entry

Small amulet of god Bes made from sandstone and faience
Museum of the City of Pregrada"dr. Zlatko Dragutin Tudjina", Pregrada
inv. no. MGP 00294
Egypt, unknown site
Hellenistic period (332-30 B.C.) - Roman Empire (30 B.C.-395 A.D.)
sandstone; faience
donation, Zlatko Dragutin Tudjina

Resources

Špoljar, Davor. "Amulet s prikazom egipatskog boga Besa iz Muzeja grada Pregrade "dr. Zlatko Dragutin Tudjina" (znanstvena obrada i interpretacija predmeta)". Hrvatsko Zagorje – časopis za kulturu Krapinskozagorske županije XIV.3-4 (2008): 165-168.
Tomorad, Mladen. „The Ancient Egyptian Antiquities in Institutional and Private Collections in Croatia“. U: Tomorad, Mladen (ur.). A History of Research into Ancient Egyptian Culture conducted in Southeast Europe. Oxford, 2015: 31-58. 53, fn. 79.
Tomorad, Mladen. „The Ancient Egyptian Collections in Croatia and the Project Croato-Aegyptica Electronica“. U: Derriks, Claire (ur.). Collections at risk: New Challenges in a New Environment - Proceedings of the 29th CIPEG Annual Meeting in Brussels, September 25-28, 2012, Royal Museums of Art and History Brussels, Belgium. Atlanta, 2017: 237-268. 259, fn. 82.
Tomorad, Mladen. Staroegipatska civilizacija, sv. II: Uvod u egiptološke studije. Zagreb, 2017. 88.