Lid of a Circular Cosmetics Container with a Birth God in the Brooklyn Museum, May 2011

Title: Lid of Circular Cosmetic Container with Birth God

Date: ca. 1479–1400 B.C.E.

Dynasty: Dynasty 18

Period: New Kingdom

Geography: Place made: Egypt

Medium: Wood, ivory, paste (?)

Classification: Container

Dimensions: 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 3/16 in. (7.9 x 6.3 x 0.5 cm)

Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

Accession Number: 74.45

Catalogue description: One wooden lid to a box of circular form with a representation of the god Bes incised on the top. Incisions filled with a yellowish paste (?). Two protrusions from the lid, opposite each other have holes for attachment to the rest. One yellow wooden knob still in place.

Condition: Excellent. One separation in the wood running with the grain.


Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/3834