Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
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-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 blue artifact with carvings on its surface.
The artifact is a blue, rectangular object with carved inscriptions on its surface, possibly made from faience. The carvings appear to be hieroglyphs, though difficult to discern clearly due to the small size and possible wear. The style suggests it may be a fragment of a larger piece or used as a decorative amulet.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown
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.