Iconographie originale d'un Bès 'nourricier' inédit

Lovely Ugly Bes! Animalistic Aspects in Ancient Egyptian Popular Religion

“…65 Bulté (2001). The presence of Bes in the birth chapels (mammisis)-not to mention the birth colonnade of Hatshepsut (at Deir el-Bahri)-reveals his essential role in the protection of the divine child.…”

“…65 Bulté (2001). Conversely, the great Bes savants of the previous century, such as Franz Ballod , Hartwig Altenmüller , and James Romano (Romano 1980, saw in Bes a native Egyptian creation, perhaps of highest antiquity-i.e., from the Pre-dynastic period or the Old Kingdom at the latest.…”

“…64 Brunner (1964). 65 Bulté (2001). 66 For Horus-cippi, now see: Sternberg-El Hotabi (1999); for the Metternich stela, see: Sander-Hansen (1956); Sternberg-El Hotabi (1999), I, 106, 110, fig.…”