Faience figurine

 Faience figurine

 A bright blue glazed figure of a dancing, dwarfish, lion demon. It has a lionskin headdress, the legs, arms and tail are free-standing, with details picked out in black. The figure probably represents a forerunner of the household god Bes, popular from the early New Kingdom onwards.

 

Fayence 

Esna

 Inventory number  03/061/3449

LIVERPOOL MUSEUM

From the 1905 - 1906 excavations of Professor J. Garstang at Esna. The object comes from tomb number 275. This object was donated to the Museum in 1977 by Colonel J.R. Danson a descendent of Sir Francis Chatillon Danson who was a committee member of the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology, and donated funds to Garstang's excavations. This gift included more material from el-'Amarna and Garstang's excavations at Abydos.

Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley, "Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in the Liverpool Museum", 1995, 77; pl. 121.

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