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Canopic Jar with Lid
The collection record classifies this work as funerary equipment. It is dated 1540–1296 BCE. Recorded culture or place: Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18.
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- Museum title
- Canopic Jar with Lid
- Date
- 1540–1296 BCE
- Culture / origin
- Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18
- Materials and technique
- limestone
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.); Diameter of mouth: 10.2 cm (4 in.); Overall: 39.7 cm (15 5/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1914.631
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
In the process of mummification certain organs, the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines, were removed, embalmed separately , and stored in jars known as canopic jars. Although this jar and another from the collection (1914.630) were presumably from the same individual and therefore the same set, they differ in their materials, workmanship, size, and style of inscriptions. Made of a different limestone this jar, the smaller of the two, has a lid in the form of a rather ludicrous male head. It is clearly by another hand. A sizable fragment is lost from the body. IN contrast to the poor quality of the head, the handsome inscription on the body is deeply cut and filled in with a blue pigment. It reads, "[Words spoken by Nephathys:] 'May your arms embrace that which is in you. May you protect Hapy, who is in you, and the honored one before Hapy, the Osiris, the royal herald, Gregmennefer, vindicated."
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust · CC0
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