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By Ancient Egypt, World Museum Liverpool
Amun was a powerful god who was known as both ‘the hidden one’ and ‘mysterious of form’. This may explain why in this extraordinary statuette he appears with as a warrior with the face of Bes. There is a dedication inscription written on all four sides of the pedestal, dedicated by Nesptah, son of Unemuamun and Paneter, and the deity is identifed as a form of Amun-Re.
Date: Dynasty 26 (about 664-525 BC)
Accession number: M11594
Bibliography: Jaromir Malek, Diana Magee and Elizabeth Miles. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings Volume VIII, Parts 1 and 2: Objects of Provenance Not Known: Statues, pp. 1026-7;
A. F. Shore, ‘The Egyptian Collection’, in Gibson and Wright, ‘Joseph Mayer of Liverpool 1803-1886 (London, 1988), pp. 61-66, pl. xiv [b];
Comparanda: This is an exceptional piece that can be compared with only two other known figures. For a discussion on this type of figure see, G. A. Wainwright, 'Some Aspects of Amun', JEA 20 (1934), p. 152-3, fig. 9; Compare with Daressy, 'Statues de divinites' (Cairo, 1906), p. 208, pl. XLIII [Cairo 38836];
Compare with F. G. H. Price, 'Notes upon a rare figure of Amen-Re', proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology XXIII (1901), 35-6.
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rom the album: Spring and (WET) Summer updatesBy Ancient Egypt, World Museum Liverpool
Turquoise-blue moulded faience figurine of a dwarfish demon, Aha or Bes, with details added in black under the glaze.
Accession number: 1977.110.2
Date: Late Dynasty 12 - Dynasty 13 (about 1862 - 1650 BC)
Provenance: from Esna, grave 275: excavated by Professor John Garstang for the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology, 1904-1906; assigned to the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology by the government of Egypt; given to Sir Francis Charles Danson by the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology in 1906; Given to the museum as the bequest of Bequest of Lieutenant Colonel John Raymond Danson, 1977.
Published: Dorothy Downes, ‘The Excavations at Esna 1905-1906’ (Warminster, 1974), p. 106, figure 90; Janine Bourriau, Pharaohs and Mortals. Cambridge (1988), p. 112-3, figure 99.
Comparanda: this is a very unusual piece that can be compared with a similar figure of Aha-Bes in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA: Regine Schulz et al., Egyptian Art The Walters Art Museum (London, 2009), p.54
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