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Canopic Jar and Cover of Tjuli

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 48.30.4a-b. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 48.30.4a-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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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): 18 1/2 × 7 × 7 in. (47 × 17.8 × 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 48.30.4a-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.

Photograph of a stone canopic jar (cylindrical jar with a human-headed lid) covered in incised decoration and hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The object shows a rounded, tapering cylindrical jar with a separately shaped lid. The lid depicts a human head facing forward; the head has a stylized beard/feature area and a broad collar-like element around the neck/head. The jar body is decorated with multiple registers of incised and pigment-filled hieroglyphs. Above the main inscription area is a seated, human-figure composition rendered in low relief (partially obscured by wear), with surrounding signs. Along the lower portion are vertical columns of hieroglyphs, some bordered or framed by sign groupings. No modern labels are visible. The surface is worn/abraded in places, suggesting age and handling. There is no clearly legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text in the image.

funerary New Kingdom (consistent with catalogue) good

Deities unknown (a seated figure is depicted; deity identity not confidently readable)

Materials stone (alabaster/calcite suggested by catalogue appearance)pigment traces in incised areas

Signs incised hieroglyphic columns (varied signs; exact individual signs not reliably legible at this resolution) ×25

Connections

Found at Saqqara

Royals Ramesses II

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 48.30.4a-b tier-2
BKM-Object 3499 tier-2

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