Canopic Jar and Cover of Tjuli
Description
Object Label: Priests separately mummified the stomach, liver, lungs, and intestines, to be placed in jars, in the most expensive method of mummification described by Herodotus. The practice of removing the organs and packing them separately declined in the Middle Kingdom and later, yet Egyptians still included canopic jars in burials. And while the covers of Middle Kingdom canopic jars all have human heads, by the New Kingdom the jars of the royal scribe of Ramesses II, named Tjuli, had human, baboon, jackal, and falcon heads. Caption: Canopic Jar and Cover of Tjuli, ca. 1279–1213 B.C.E.. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 18 1/2 × 6 11/16 in. (47 × 17 cm) mount (supported by plaicre): 18 1/8 × 8 1/16 × 8 1/16 in. (46 × 20.5 × 20.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 48.30.3a-b. (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 carved Egyptian canopic jar with a human-headed ram or ram-headed figure on the lid, bearing dense hieroglyphic decoration on the jar body.
The object appears to be a canopic jar: an ovoid alabaster/calcareous container with a separately carved lid. The lid is topped with a prominent face and headdress that reads visually as an animal or ram-like head (curled horn-like elements framing the head). The jar body is covered with vertical registers of hieroglyphs, painted or incised in light-toned relief/inscription lines. Beneath/around the inscriptions are multiple small iconographic figures and symbols arranged in ordered columns, consistent with formal New Kingdom funerary/ritual texts. No clearly legible royal cartouche is visible in this image resolution. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is apparent. The inscription is present but too unclear at this resolution for an accurate excerpt. The overall surface and color suggest a pale stone (alabaster/calcite), consistent with the catalogue description.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 48.30.3a-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 61171 tier-2
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