Cypriot Terracotta Lamp with the Egyptian God Bes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Title: Lamp representing Bes

Medium; Technique: Terracotta; mold-made and hand-made

Culture: Cypriot

Period: Cypro-Archaic II

Date: end of the 6th century B.C.

Dimensions: H. 9 3/8 in. (23.3 cm)

Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76

Accession Number: 74.51.2364

On View

Description:

A small lamp with a short nozzle and flat rim is embedded in a deeper bowl and attached to a vertical handle decorated on the front with a figure of Bes. Incised in the Cypriot syllabary on the rim of the lamp is the inscription "of Philotimos," who was perhaps the maker or owner.

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