Bes also, seated on the ground at a distance, ate and drank, for his own reasons filling himself to the throat as though he were a wineskin, until the serving slaves mocked at him for a glutton.
When we had finished eating, slaves appeared bearing a wooden framework from which hung a great pair of scales.

Also there appeared officers of the King's Treasury, carrying leather bags which they opened, breaking the seals to show that the contents were pure gold coin.

They set a number of these bags on one of the scales, and then ordered Bes to seat himself in the other.

So much heavier did he prove than they expected him to be, that they were obliged to send back to the Treasury to fetch more bags of gold, for although Bes was so short in height, his weight was that of a large man.

One of the treasurers grumbled, saying he should have been weighed before he had eaten and drunk.