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Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples

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Enlarge Bes-image of the god Horus-Ashakhet
30th Dynasty–mid-Ptolemaic Period, 4th–2nd century B.C.
Bronze, solid cast, with separate headdress (lost); gold, electrum, auriferous silver, and copper-alloy inlay
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Rogers Fund, 1929 (29.2.3)
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