Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Canopic Jar of Maruta
Description
Limestone, blue paste
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.
A canopic jar with a human-headed lid featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact shown is a well-preserved canopic jar made of limestone with a human-headed lid, suggesting it may represent one of the Four Sons of Horus. The jar is slender with inscriptions carved into the front, filled with blue pigment. The hieroglyphs are indicative of the object’s ritual function, used for the storage of organs during mummification.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
Ankh
Djed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274811 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 18.8.5a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548638 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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