Votive Stela of Bes and Apollo

200 B.C.E–200 C.E.

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Votive Stela of Bes and Apollo, 200 B.C.E–200 C.E.. Limestone? (possibly marble), 13 x 10 1/4 in. (33 x 26 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.580.218. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Title

Votive Stela of Bes and Apollo

Date

200 B.C.E–200 C.E.

Period

late Ptolemaic Period to early Roman Period

Medium

Limestone? (possibly marble)

Classification

Funerary Object

Dimensions

13 x 10 1/4 in. (33 x 26 cm)

Inscriptions

...of the inhabitants of Tentyra, Bes and Apollo, the greatest gods, in the year 21 on Thoth the...

Credit Line

Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour

Accession Number

16.580.218

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