Bes with sword and serpent and Beset with tambourine, limestone, Ptolemaic Period, 302-30 BC Egypt, Egyptian.


Bes is a Egyptian god of childbirth, fertility, sexuality, humor, and war, a protector god of pregnant women and children. Dwarf with large ears, long-haired and bearded, with prominent genitals,


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