Tile with the image of Bes from the palace of Ramesses II

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.

A rectangular faience tile fragment decorated with a bearded, standing composite figure associated with protective/divine imagery (likely Bes) in polychrome pigment.

The object is a rectangular, flat tile with the surface now abraded and partially broken at the edges. Most of the central imagery is preserved enough to show a frontal composite figure: a dark bearded face with large eyes, extending arms, and a bent knee/leg posture. The figure appears framed by remnants of colored areas at the left and right edges (greenish and brown/black tones). In the center above the figure’s body there are several blocky, light-colored and dark shapes that look like remaining pigment from the original design rather than clearly readable signs. No clear cartouche or full hieroglyphic line is visible; any marks present are either decorative/pigment-loss or too fragmentary to reliably interpret. The image style matches the kind of protective deities often depicted on faience tiles, consistent in general with a Bes-related theme, though the exact depiction details are partially obscured by loss.