Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Dwarf
Description
Faded blue 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 small statuette of a bearded dwarf with one arm raised to its mouth.
The artifact is a faience statuette depicting a dwarf figure, possibly associated with the god Bes. The figure has a prominent facial expression with detailed features, including a beard. It stands upright on a small base with one arm raised. The overall surface exhibits signs of wear, characteristic of aged faience.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Bes
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280685 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.125 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546818 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.