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Article Dans Une Revue Les cahiers de Karnak Année : 2013

Remarques à propos de quelques vases Bès découverts à Karnak

Catherine Defernez

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This paper puts forward a few examples of well-preserved Bes-pots that were recently uncovered at Karnak in the upper levels of the debris of the Treasury of Shabaka. Dated to the Ptolemaic period (possibly to its first half), these pieces offer new evidence for this specific class of pottery. Otherwise rarely attested, these Bes vessels, which were manufactured in Nile clay, are not clearly recognizable because of their schematic decoration. This consists of, for example, the marking of eyes by fingerprints and, in some cases, a nose seems to be created by a slight pinching of the outer wall. Most of the occurrences of this vessel-type identified at Karnak are presented here; these were found in several areas of the Amun-Re temple, as well as North and South Karnak. Some similar vessels were also recently recorded in the Mut Temple. Some closed shapes found at other sites in the Theban area are also included, as well as those discovered in several areas outside Thebes, particularly in the Delta; for example, reports which mention such vessels from several sites in the eastern part of the country are assessed. Despite the small number of pieces, these Bes-pots are significant, and their analysis shows a major development in this class of pottery. They also provide new data for the classification established in a previous study, which was based on findings from the Persian site of Tell el-Herr.
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Catherine Defernez. Remarques à propos de quelques vases Bès découverts à Karnak. Les cahiers de Karnak, 2013, 14, pp.299-331. ⟨hal-03640730⟩
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