Bes Amulet
Description
Caption: Bes Amulet, 334–332 B.C.E.. Faience, 13/16 × 1/2 × 3/8 in. (2 × 1.3 × 1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1098E.
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.
Small green faience amulet depicting the dwarf-god Bes in a seated/standing frontal form.
The image shows a single, small molded amulet against a plain light background. The figure is presented frontally with an exaggerated, bearded face and wears a head/ear arrangement typical of Bes iconography; arms appear held close to the sides, with the overall body forming a compact rectangular/rounded shape. The surface is greenish and glossy/mottled, consistent with molded faience. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are visible on the image. The amulet appears complete but is photographed from a distance, limiting finer identification details (e.g., exact headdress attributes or any small inscriptions).
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1098E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117674 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.