Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Bes head disk with scene of Isis and Horus in marsh on reverse
Description
Steatite
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 decorative artifact depicting a bearded face with a joyful expression.
This ancient Egyptian artifact features a detailed representation of a bearded face, crafted in a manner that emphasizes expressive features such as wide eyes and a smiling mouth. The artifact is round with a hole at the top, suggesting it may have been worn as an amulet or used as a decorative item. The craftsmanship displays intricate detailing, especially in the facial hair, which is carved in defined, flowing lines.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414622 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 42.5.19 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546189 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.