2-325-401 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The God Bes, c350 BC (1936). Limestone statue. Found in the collection of the Louvre, Paris. Bes was an Egyptian deity worshipped in the later periods of dynastic history as a protector of households and in particular mothers and children. Plate taken from The Art of Ancient Egypt, published by the Phaidon Press (Vienna, 1936).