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 featuring a human-headed stopper and vertical inscription.
The artifact is a canopic jar made of limestone, featuring a finely carved human head as the stopper, representing one of the Four Sons of Horus. The jar is decorated with a vertical column of hieroglyphs, painted in blue, running down its front. The craftsmanship indicates attention to detail and the jar likely served a funerary purpose.
funerary
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
limestone
Signs
reed leaf ×5
water ripple ×3
Visible text
"imn-nfr"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274799 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 18.8.3a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548645 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.