Bes Amulet
Description
Caption: Bes Amulet, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E.. Glass, 1 1/4 × 9/16 in. (3.2 × 1.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.101. (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 reddish-brown Egyptian amulet figure in the form of a Bes/household-guardian style dwarf, shown standing in profile and holding a curved implement; three perforations are visible for suspension.
The image shows a small molded amulet figure against a light gray background. The figure has a squat, humanlike body with dark, hollow drill holes indicating attachment/suspension points: one on the upper right near the head/arm area and two lower holes near the torso/legs. The head and facial features appear simplified and exaggerated in a typical Bes-like manner (rounded head, protruding facial contours), with the body in a contrapposto stance. A glossy orange-brown surface coating is visible over the entire object, suggesting a glazed ceramic/glass-like finish. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or alphabetic scripts are visible in the provided view.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.101 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9358 tier-2
About this record's data
- 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.