Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Canopic jar of Kay
Description
Linen covered with stucco
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, likely representing a deity or important individual.
The artifact is a canopic jar with a lid sculpted in the form of a human head, possibly indicative of a protective deity. The jar itself is made from painted and decorated limestone, featuring vibrant colors, including turquoise and yellow, indicative of Egyptian funerary art. The visible inscriptions in the middle relate to its religious usage, which are commonly found in funerary contexts. The head sports a blue headdress, which is typical in representing funerary figures.
funerary
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Deities
unknown
Materials
limestonepaint
Signs
reed ×2
quail chick
Visible text
"wsir"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281568 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 11.150.18a.1, .2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546283 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.