Votive Stela of Bes and Apollo

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)
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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
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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