Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Figure of Bes in Relief Late Period or Ptolemaic PeriodSaqqara, Egypt

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1533E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 37.1533E
Find spot: Saqqara, Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period or Ptolemaic Period
Date: 664–332 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 332 BCE
Materials: ['Limestone', 'pigment']
Height: 19.0 cm
Width: 18.0 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Figure of Bes in Relief (37.1533E). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18574

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Caption: Figure of Bes in Relief, 664–332 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 7 1/2 × 7 1/16 × 2 1/4 in. (19 × 18 × 5.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1533E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

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Found at Saqqara

Deities Bes

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1533E tier-2
BKM-Object 118059 tier-2

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