Statuette of the God Bes
Description
Caption: Statuette of the God Bes, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 4 13/16 x 2 1/4 x 7/8 in. (12.3 x 5.7 x 2.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.301. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A stone artifact resembling a figure with a central circular hole.
The artifact appears to be a roughly sculpted stone object resembling a human figure. It is vertically oriented and features a prominent circular hole in the center of the torso. The surface is uneven, suggesting it may have been hand-carved. There are no visible inscriptions or decorations.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.301 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9559 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.