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), pigment , 18 1/2 × 6 11/16 in. (47 × 17 cm) mount (supported by plaicre): 19 × 7 × 7 in. (48.3 × 17.8 × 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 48.30.1a-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 small Egyptian canopic jar with a human-headed lid, decorated with incised/painted hieroglyphs across the body and a face/figure on the lid.
The image shows a canopic jar form consisting of a rounded body and a separate lid. The lid is carved to resemble a human head or face with molded features. The jar’s body is covered with densely arranged hieroglyphic signs in vertical registers; within the registers are stylized figures (including at least one seated/standing divine or ritual figure) and other symbolic marks associated with funerary texts. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script is visible. No clear royal cartouche is legible; the inscriptions appear to be a personal or funerary text rather than an identifiable king’s name. The surface appears stone-like and light-colored with traces of darker pigment in the engraved lines.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 48.30.1a-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 3498 tier-2
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