Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Canopic Jar of Manhata
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 and vertical hieroglyphic inscription.
This artifact is a canopic jar, crafted from stone, featuring a human-headed lid representing a deity or guardian figure. The body of the jar bears a vertical column of incised hieroglyphs painted in blue, likely describing the jar's contents or the owner. The style is typical of funerary objects used in the mummification process. The artifact exemplifies precise carving and the use of blue pigment for emphasis.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
scarab
water ripple ×5
reclining lion
Visible text
"ir nBswt ntr mAa"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274806 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 18.8.1a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548644 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.