Small Figure of the God Bes Standing on a Lotus Flower
Description
Caption: Small Figure of the God Bes Standing on a Lotus Flower, 305–30 B.C.E.. Bronze, 2 7/8 × 1 × 1 1/16 in. (7.3 × 2.6 × 2.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.917E.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A small cast metal standing deity figure is shown frontally, with legs apart and arms held near the body; the figure stands on a lotus-like base.
The image depicts a small, dark bronze-colored standing figure with a squat, nude or minimally clothed appearance. The head has an elaborate cap/crest and the face appears stylized with bulging features; both hands are raised toward the sides of the head/upper torso. The figure’s body has defined shoulders, chest, and abdomen, with a belt or band visible at the waist. The feet rest on a rounded, lotus-shaped support with stacked/curving petals. A small protruding form at the viewer’s left (below shoulder level) may be part of the support or an attribute; however, the details are worn and not fully legible. No clear inscription is visible on the figure in this photograph, and there is no visible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.917E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117501 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.