Bes and Wadjet-eye Plaque
Description
Caption: Bes and Wadjet-eye Plaque, 664–332 B.C.E.. Faience or glazed steatite, 3/16 x 3/8 x 9/16 in. (0.5 x 0.9 x 1.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1337E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 blue faience/glazed-stone plaque fragment with a worn raised design, likely depicting a protective figure or eye motif per the catalogue description. A modern handwritten inventory label is visible below it.
The image shows a small rectangular object photographed on a gray textured background. The object is a deep blue glazed surface with a lighter blue/raised or incised motif near the top; much of the figure detail is eroded, but the general presence of a decorative/representational element is clear. Beneath the object is a rectangular white label containing black handwritten numerals reading “37.13376.” No clear Egyptian hieroglyphs, cartouches, or readable inscriptions are visible on the artifact itself in this photo. The catalogue title indicates “Bes and Wadjet-eye Plaque,” but the photograph does not clearly show specific features of either Bes or the Wadjet-eye; therefore deity identification from the image is uncertain.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1337E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117897 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.
- 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.