IDENTIFIERS
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id:	65403
accession number:	E.W.42

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 18 July 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: staff head, with Bes standing on a lotus column
object type: Carved wooden staff head, featuring Bes stood on a lotus columns. The arms are missing, with exposed bronze joints and dowel holes at the shoulders, and dowel holes. A carved square mortise is visible at the side of the eye on the proper left. A deeply carved mortise runs down the length of the Bes figure on the rear, and is filled with an unknown hard substance. This may have been part of a ceremonial staff head (other examples are present; such as BM EA26267). However, the presence of the back cavity is parallel to that of Louvre E 5723, which is labelled as a 'fetal mummy'.
title:	staff

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/65403





TECHNIQUES
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carved

CATEGORIES
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category: accessory
category: regalia

DATING
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DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 2.8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 15.6

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 3.1



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