DOI Artikel:
Lipińska, Jadwiga: Egyptian sculptures and reliefs "Brought" by Professor Kazimierz Michałowski from Edfu
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18950#0061
schematically, and his body is distorted. The author of the only study of this
statuę dated it to the 3rd century A.D. on the basis of sonie parallels. For years
the statuę was displayed inside a late Ptolemaic naos reconstructed from
fragments also “brought from Edfu”, but was not mentioned in the excavation
reports.19 Michałowski himself was somewhat fond of the ugly statuette of Bes,
and personally placed it inside the naos first in 1938, and then again after the
war. In 1937 the statuę was exhibited alone, as the naos was probably not yet
10. Statuę of the god Bes
The National tóuseum
Warsaw
inv. no. 141270
(photo: tóuseum)
out of the restoration workshop. No information about the connection of the
objects to each other is preserved, so, even ii they were connected, the evidence
is lost.
Narodowego”, Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie, XIV, 1970, pp. 25-26. Inv. no.
141270. The figurę is 41 cm tali, 18.5 cm wide.
19 E. Laskowska-Kusztal, “Un naos d'Edfou au Musee National de Varsovie”, Etudes et Travaux,
XVII, 1995, p. 96-106.
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statuę dated it to the 3rd century A.D. on the basis of sonie parallels. For years
the statuę was displayed inside a late Ptolemaic naos reconstructed from
fragments also “brought from Edfu”, but was not mentioned in the excavation
reports.19 Michałowski himself was somewhat fond of the ugly statuette of Bes,
and personally placed it inside the naos first in 1938, and then again after the
war. In 1937 the statuę was exhibited alone, as the naos was probably not yet
10. Statuę of the god Bes
The National tóuseum
Warsaw
inv. no. 141270
(photo: tóuseum)
out of the restoration workshop. No information about the connection of the
objects to each other is preserved, so, even ii they were connected, the evidence
is lost.
Narodowego”, Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie, XIV, 1970, pp. 25-26. Inv. no.
141270. The figurę is 41 cm tali, 18.5 cm wide.
19 E. Laskowska-Kusztal, “Un naos d'Edfou au Musee National de Varsovie”, Etudes et Travaux,
XVII, 1995, p. 96-106.
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