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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3780243, member: 87200&quot;]This looks to be a tough one. But in mythology Typhon of the Greeks is associated with the Egyptian deity Bes. Here is an example of a coin of Bes (Typhon)...</p><p><br /></p><p>Cilicia, uncertain city, Obol 380 B.C.E.</p><p><br /></p><p>.61g</p><p><br /></p><p>Female head facing, slightly left.</p><p><br /></p><p>Facing head of Bes</p><p><br /></p><p>SNG Levante 233</p><p><br /></p><p>Sold by Aegean Numismatics</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1009842[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Faience Scarab of Bes or Typhon in the British Museum</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN16131/AN1613122593_l.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Museum number</b></font></p><p>1864,1007.908</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Description</b></font></p><p>Front:Bottom</p><p><br /></p><p>Faience scarab; Bes or Typhon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bes is represented most significantly in the Temple of Hathor at Denderah in reliefs such as this one...Bes was supposed to frighten away evil spirits that haunted women in childbirth, so pregnant women often visited Denderah up through the Roman period to receive his blessings. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1009844[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next: Personification of Alexandria[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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