Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue
Bes
Description
Caption: Bes, 305 B.C.E.–395 C.E.. Limestone, 8 11/16 × 5 7/16 × 1 3/4 in. (22 × 13.8 × 4.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1511E. (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 carved relief depicting a standing figure.
The artifact is a limestone relief showing a figure in a standing pose. The carving style suggests a simplistic and robust technique, possibly indicative of protective deities. The figure's features and attributes might reference specific deities known for their protective qualities.
religious
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1511E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118042 tier-2
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.