Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · vessel

Canopic Jar Base

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1902E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1902E
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 26, or later
Date: 664–332 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 332 BCE
Materials: ['Limestone']
Height: 21.0 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Canopic Jar Base (37.1902E). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18449

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Caption: Canopic Jar Base, 664–332 B.C.E.. Limestone, 8 1/4 x 5 5/16 in. (21 x 13.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1902E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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 tall, rounded-base limestone vessel fragment with a concave top opening and incised painted/engraved hieroglyphic text on its front surface.

The image shows a single canopic-jar-related stone fragment standing upright against a neutral background. The upper portion forms a wide, concave mouth/opening, while the body is cylindrical-to-ovoid with a rounded base. The front face contains a dense block of incised hieroglyphs (some filled with dark pigment), arranged in a roughly rectangular register; additional smaller signs appear below and at the edges. No clearly identifiable canopic deity figure (e.g., human/baboon/jackal heads) is visible on the shown fragment, but the overall shape is consistent with a base or upper-body section of a canopic jar. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The surface shows weathering, discoloration, and areas where pigment and stone have flaked.

funerary Late Period (as catalogued); inscription style appears consistent but is not sufficient alone to confirm good

Materials limestone (stone body)dark pigment remnants in incised hieroglyphs

Signs incised hieroglyphic signs (varied, exact reading unclear) ×40

Visible text "Text present as a block of incised hieroglyphs; exact transcription unclear from the image resolution/contrast."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Text present as a block of incised hieroglyphs; exact transcription unclear from the image resolution/contrast.

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1902E tier-2
BKM-Object 118407 tier-2

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