Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Canopic Jar of Princess Sithathoryunet - Qebehsenuef
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), paint
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 inscriptions and a carved face on the lid.
The artifact is a canopic jar carved from alabaster, featuring a highly detailed human face on the lid, which represents one of the Four Sons of Horus. The body of the jar exhibits smooth lines and a polished finish. It includes a column of incised hieroglyphs with remnants of green pigment, indicating the jar's religious or funerary use. The craftsmanship suggests attention to detail and functionality, common in burial practices.
funerary
New Kingdom
excellent
Deities
Imsety
Materials
alabaster
Signs
reed leaf ×2
owl
vulture
Visible text
"Htp dỉ nsw ỉmȝḫw Imsety"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247997 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.1.45a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544334 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.