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 limestone canopic jar with a human-headed lid depicting inscriptions.
The artifact is a limestone canopic jar featuring a lid shaped like a human head. The jar's surface bears several vertical columns of hieroglyphic inscriptions. The style is consistent with funerary artifacts used in ancient Egyptian mummification practices. The jar appears slightly weathered but retains distinct inscriptions.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
Ankh ×2
Djed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274801 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 18.8.6a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548639 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.