Skip to main content

Staff: E.W.42

An image of Staff
View image details Mirador icon - view image Mirador deep zoom IIIF Manifest IIIF Manifest Slow looking

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Alternative views

An image of Staff
An image of Staff
An image of Staff
Current Location: In storage

Entities

Categories

Description

Carved wooden staff head, featuring Bes stood on a lotus columns. The arms are missing, with exposed bronze joints and dowel holes at the shoulders, and dowel holes. A carved square mortise is visible at the side of the eye on the proper left. A deeply carved mortise runs down the length of the Bes figure on the rear, and is filled with an unknown hard substance. This may have been part of a ceremonial staff head (other examples are present; such as BM EA26267). However, the presence of the back cavity is parallel to that of Louvre E 5723, which is labelled as a 'fetal mummy'.

Staff head, with Bes standing on a lotus column

Measurements and weight

Depth: 2.8 cm
Height: 15.6 cm
Width: 3.1 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Unknown by Unknown

Components of the work

Pins For Fixing Arms composed of bronze

Materials used in production

Wood

Techniques used in production

Carved

Identification numbers

Accession number: E.W.42
Primary reference Number: 65403

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 18 July 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Staff" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/65403 Accessed: 2025-12-06 19:02:21

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/65403 |title=Staff |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-06 19:02:21|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-65403

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant49/large_E_W_42_1_201202_mdb56_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Staff"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Staff</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo