Standing Figure of Bes
Description
Caption: Standing Figure of Bes, ca. 727–712 B.C.E.. Faience, 7/8 x 3/8 x 5/16 in. (2.2 x 1 x 0.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.101. (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.
Small turquoise-blue faience figurine of a standing dwarf-like deity, shown seated/standing with arms raised near the chest and a prominent headdress.
The image shows a small, turquoise-blue object photographed against a plain light-gray background. The figure has a stylized, squat body and a distinctive face with large, dark eye area and exaggerated features consistent with the protective dwarf god Bes. A broad, vertically segmented headdress/rear wig or crown-like element rises above the head. The arms appear bent with hands held close together near the upper torso. The surface shows a uniform glazed ceramic sheen typical of faience. No clear hieroglyphic inscription, cartouche, or other script is visible on the object in this view. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.101 tier-2
- BKM-Object 19167 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.