Canopic Jar with Cover
Description
Caption: Canopic Jar with Cover, 664–332 B.C.E.. Limestone, 37.1899Ea: 9 7/16 x diam. 6 7/8 in. (24 x 17.5 cm) 37.1899Eb: 2 15/16 x diam. 4 7/16 in. (7.5 x 11.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1899Ea-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
An ancient Egyptian canopic jar with inscriptions.
The image shows a canopic jar made of stone, featuring a carved lid and hieroglyphic inscriptions along its body. The jar is smooth and displays typical characteristics of funerary items designed to store and preserve the viscera of the deceased for the afterlife. The inscriptions are vertically arranged and occupy a central column, indicative of Egyptian stylistic features.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1899Ea-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 118404 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.