Small Bottle in the Form of the God Bes
Description
Caption: Small Bottle in the Form of the God Bes, 305–30 B.C.E.. Terracotta, 3 1/16 × 2 1/16 × 1 5/8 in. (7.8 × 5.2 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.323E.
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 dark ceramic/terracotta bottle modeled in the form of the dwarf-god Bes, shown seated with hands held forward and prominent facial features.
The object is a squat, bottle-shaped vessel with a narrow neck and flared rim. The body is sculpted to resemble Bes: a broad, leonine-looking face with a thick beard/muzzle area, large nose and staring features, and raised hands/clenched fists held close together in front of the torso. The surface appears darkened by firing or age, with modeled details around the cheeks/beard and seated drapery/torso contours. No clear hieroglyphic signs, cartouches, or other textual inscriptions are visible on the photographed surfaces. The background is a neutral studio setting; the vessel’s material and form are consistent with a Bes figurine-bottle type.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.323E tier-2
- BKM-Object 116995 tier-2
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- 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.
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