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): 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-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 hieroglyphic inscriptions and a lid shaped like a deity's head.
The artifact is a stone canopic jar featuring a delicately crafted lid representing a deity’s head, possibly human or animal in form. The body of the jar is covered in detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions, which are organized in vertical columns. The style and composition suggest a typical design used in funerary contexts, with figures depicted in a formal, stylized manner. The jar's surface shows signs of aging but remains well-preserved, highlighting its intricate carvings.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 48.30.4a-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 3499 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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