These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Wooden carved image of Bes (front-facing), nude. A plaster-like material coats much of the reverse of the image, and on the front a blue material is visible (particularly around the groin, legs and arms). A crack is present on the bottom, next to the proper right leg. There are two horizontally arranged tenons at the top and bottom. This image possibly featured on the back of a chair, as a near-identical carved image of Bes can be seen on MMA 36.3.152, the New Kingdom chair of Hatnefer.
Bes, furniture attachment
Height: 20.2 cm
Thickness: 1.3 cm
Width: 6.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1949) by Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville
Accession number: E.GA.123.1949
Primary reference Number: 61848
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
Mirador deep zoom
IIIF Manifest
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Furniture element" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/61848 Accessed: 2025-04-09 01:40:42
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/61848
|title=Furniture element
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-04-09 01:40:42|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-61848
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant49/E_GA_123_1949_1_201202_mdb56_dc2.jpg"
alt="Furniture element"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Furniture element</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
