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 bust depicting a male figure with a round, close-fitting headdress.
The artifact is a finely crafted limestone bust of a male figure, characterized by a rounded, smooth headdress and detailed facial features. The craftsmanship suggests careful attention to detail, particularly in the rendering of the eyes and lips. Weathering is noticeable, indicating significant age but preserving most facial attributes.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274810 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 18.8.7a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548640 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.