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Canopic Jar and Cover of Tjuli

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Accession: 48.30.1a-b
Find spot: Saqqara, Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 19
Date: ca. 1279–1213 B.C.E.
Date range: 1279 BCE – 1213 BCE
Materials: ['Egyptian alabaster (calcite)', 'pigment']
Height: 47.0 cm
Width: 17.0 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Canopic Jar and Cover of Tjuli (48.30.1a-b). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/19068

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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-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.

A canopic jar with hieroglyphic inscriptions and an avian-headed lid.

The artifact is a canopic jar made of alabaster, featuring an avian-headed lid possibly representing the god Horus. The body of the jar is adorned with detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions, depicting figures likely involved in a ritual scene. The style is characteristic of funerary items used to store and preserve the viscera of the deceased.

funerary New Kingdom good

Deities Horus

Materials alabaster

Signs ankh ×2 djed

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Connections

Found at Saqqara

Deities Horus

Royals Ramesses Ramesses II

Materials Alabaster

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 48.30.1a-b tier-2
BKM-Object 3498 tier-2

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