Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Canopic Jar of Teti
Description
pottery, Marl A 4, 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.
Canopic jar with a human-headed stopper representing one of the Four Sons of Horus.
This artifact is a canopic jar, which features a painted and modeled human head likely representing the deity Imsety, one of the Four Sons of Horus. The jar's body is decorated with painted lines suggesting organic veining, and the stopper includes detailed facial features with green and red pigments. An inscription is present on the front, consisting of hieroglyphs.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Imsety
Materials
limestonepaint
Signs
unknown ×5
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246472 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.2.9a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544786 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.