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With an envelope (post 1916) on which is written in dark ink:  Bes, probably after 1000 BC. The serpent strangler; Note long hair, bow legs, squat figure. The prototype of satyrs gorgons etc. God of childbirth and the female arts  spinning etc. Name not beyond 1500 BC picture not beyond 2000 BC. God of the orient, possibly connected with the pygmies etc. This figure possibly a  patak pataikoi (little ptah) owing to assoc n and identification with Ptah, the  oldest of all god of Memphis. With L.16.028 B

AD 1916

C.001.024

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A Brisbane Private Collection

P.001

C.001.023

Mr James Donaldson

Bes, probably after 1000 BC. The serpent strangler; Note long hair, bow legs, squat figure. The prototype of satyrs gorgons etc. God of childbirth and the female arts spinning etc. Name not beyond 1500 BC picture not beyond 2000 BC. God of the orient, possibly connected with the pygmies etc. This figure possibly a patak pataikoi (little ptah) owing to assoc n and identification with Ptah, the oldest of all god of Memphis.