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Ancient Egyptian Green Faience Bes Amulet c.664-525 BC.

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Ancient Egyptian Green Faience Bes Amulet c.664-525 BC.
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Ancient Egyptian Green Faience Bes Amulet c.664-525 BC. Size 27 x 22 mm. Fine Green faience Bes Amulet plaque of the Dwarf god Bes, his face rendered in traditional fashion with plumed headdress, prominent ears, and a beard of inscised lines. the reverse features and arrangement of Glyphs including the nefer sign, meaning "good" as beautiful, the renpet sign, meaning year and topmost, the solar disk glyph re with the horned glyph wepet below it meaning to inaugurate or to open. together, the inscription wishes the owner a good or beautiful opening of the year, or in other words, a happy new year. This was a gift for an annual holiday. Scarce! Provenance: Ex Harlen Berk Chicago USA.