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Head of Bes and Sacred eye Amulet

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Description

Disk, Bes. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, Dynasty 26–30, 664–30 B.C. Light green faience. Diam. 5.7 × Th. 1 cm (2 1/4 × 3/8 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915.

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.

The image shows a small round Egyptian amulet/plaquette with a light turquoise/light green glazed faience surface, depicting the face of the dwarf god Bes beneath a radiating hair/diadem motif.

A circular, flat amulet made of light turquoise/light green glazed material is shown in front view against a neutral grey background. The central design is a stylized face with exaggerated features associated with Bes, including a prominent forehead and patterned facial markings. Above/around the head there is a vertical, comb-like or radiating motif that reads as a headgear or hair arrangement rather than measurable text. Along the inner border, faint decorative marks resembling a beaded rim and short raised lines are visible, but no clearly legible hieroglyphic sequence can be confirmed. No cartouche, royal name, or other formal inscription panels are visible. The object appears intact aside from minor surface wear at the rim and small losses along the edge.

religious Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (as given by catalogue; exact phase not independently determinable from the image alone). good
Deities Bes
Materials light green faienceglazed surface

Connections

Deities Bes
Materials Glazed SurfaceLight Green Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116419714 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.8.157 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 552837 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • 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.