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Besa gem

Gem formerly published as Mithraic by Cumont but subsequently identified as depicting the Egyptian deity Besa.
 
The New Mithraeum
29 May 2026
On the gem, published in MMM II 453 No. 15 and fig. 407, the Egyptian deity Besa is represented (Delatte in Mus. Belge XVIII, 1914, 19f).

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