Bes Amulet
Description
Faience
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 small pierced amulet in the form of the dwarf-god Bes, shown standing in a stylized, front-facing figure.
The object is a compact faience amulet with a worn/abraded surface. It depicts a standing Bes figure: a broad, block-like torso, articulated arms, and a stylized face/head above. The figure has multiple circular perforations: one or more holes through the body area and additional holes arranged in the lower half, indicating it was strung or attached as jewelry/amulet. No clearly readable hieroglyphic inscription or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible in the image. There are no cartouches or royal names visible. The overall appearance is consistent with a typical Bes amulet form, though fine details are obscured by wear and imaging/contrast.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281011 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.6.130 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 558131 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.