Taweret And Bes Analysis

In the sea of sculptures at The Oriental Institute, one stood out to me. Taweret and Bes (The Great one) believe to be a deities or Goddess of pregnancy back in A.D 359 in Egypt. The sculpture was in a six by ten frame box with about 20 other small piece of jewelry and other smaller sculptures. They didn’t have a donor or a specific sculptor more of a finding of lost jewels and so. The Taweret and Bes being a medium size sculpt isn’t the biggest sculptures in that box, but it caught my eye with it ridiculous and stylish stands. The Taweret and Bes fall in between abstract form or a person, but with concrete features of being a human figures. It fade into abstract due to the fact it is a lion head on a hippopotamus body and its standing on

Taweret wasn’t generalize, but individualized because she was used for jewelry or furniture piece. That each one in the box had a different size or sculpted with different features of her body bearing wide legs and the lion head. The lion head always changes or the body form lets me believe that Taweret and Bes was a stylized piece of art. Many of smaller jewelry have their own flare such as the overdone mane or stomach being wide. Since Taweret was a deities of pregnancy she was idealized to fit the form of a women with child bearing hip and wide stomach meaning good fortunes. Even having the head of a lion she was made to look pleasing to the eye. The sculpture was meant to hit emotion with all mother in the land to pray to her so their children can be safe. Dynamic movement are show

We examined a few in class, but those have more of human feature in the face with nose and mouth of a human, not of a lion. They did have the same concept of wide hips and wide belly to symbolize fertile women they were also consider to be didactic, individualized and serious. Comparing Taweret to another sculpt of different meaning. We almost saw sculptures of worshipers, these sculpt where human shape vary in sizes and colors. Mostly of men faces with a long beard shape and rode clothing. The figures all look alike except different colors all show a static feel, realistic, generalized. The only thing in common they have with Taweret would be the three dimensional because of beard pointed outward I think these sculpts were made to please the Gods and show how many people are follower and who pray to