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    Why do you think the Bes figurines are heavy cavalry? By far the most common Bes type for the 2nd century BC is a cuirassed thureophoros, or thorakites.
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    Quote Originally Posted by paullus View Post
    Why do you think the Bes figurines are heavy cavalry? By far the most common Bes type for the 2nd century BC is a cuirassed thureophoros, or thorakites.
    Because this Bes figurine (the only one of its kind that I've seen) is of Bes wearing a muscled cuirass and carrying an aspis a sword while riding a horse.
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    Do you know where its from? Is it recent? Most of the good recent finds have been from Memphis-Saqqara as far as I've seen, but it could just as easily be a chance find from 100 years ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by paullus View Post
    Do you know where its from? Is it recent? Most of the good recent finds have been from Memphis-Saqqara as far as I've seen, but it could just as easily be a chance find from 100 years ago.
    The source I got if from lists it as provenance unknown, unfortunately. The book I found it in (Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas from Egypt by Laszlo Török) is primarily composed of objects in Hungarian collections, so it being the result of an older discovery seems pretty certain.

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