Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Container in the form of a Bes-image
Description
Faience
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 statue of the deity Bes, depicted wearing a headdress and adorned with a beaded necklace.
This ancient Egyptian artifact is a statuette of the deity Bes, who is often represented as a dwarf with leonine features. The figure wears a tall headdress and is adorned with a beaded necklace. The statue holds a cup or bowl in its hands, indicating its role in domestic protection or ritual activities. The style is characteristic of small protective statues found commonly in household shrines.
decorative
Ptolemaic
excellent
Deities
Bes
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246164 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1989.281.94 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544908 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.
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