Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
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-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 small carved object with visible hieroglyphs.
This image depicts a small, intricately carved Egyptian object, likely an amulet or bead. The surface features hieroglyphs painted in red, suggesting its potential use in ritual contexts or as decoration. The object appears to be made of a stone material, possibly faience or limestone.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Signs
unknown ×5
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.