| Model (not visible) : Bès
Date : approx. between 525 and 500 B.C.
Material : Limestone
Acquisition : Anonymous loan (1996)
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Greek Antiquities
Sculpture
Vitrine : V06
Area related
Grèce antique Est (Greece)
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| Description |  |
A figure caved in low relief decorates each face of this pillar. The figures are a woman holding a lotus flower, attended by two tiny winged youths over her head, a man in a long robe who wears a wreath and holds a laurel branch and a small lyre - Bes, the animal-headed Egyptian god, and the legs of a feline, presumably a sphinx - and a man who wears a wreath and a long robe and leads a sacrificial goat. The style of carving is Greek provincial, but this distinctive type of monument is a Phoenician form. The pillar may have been a votive dedication rather than a grave marker.
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