Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Canopic Jar (with lid 30.8.54)
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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 lid with minimal decoration.
The image depicts an undecorated canopic jar lid, notable for its smooth finish and lack of inscriptions or carvings. The style is simple, suggesting utilitarian use rather than decorative. The lid likely formed part of the set used for storing the internal organs of the deceased during the mummification process.
funerary
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247537 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 07.226.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544688 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.