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Canopic jar with a baboon-headed lid (Hapy)

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 10.178.1a, b. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 10.178.1a, b
Period: Late Period, Saite
Dynasty: Dynasty 26
Date: 664–525 B.C.
Date range: 664 BCE – 525 BCE
Materials: ['travertine (egyptian alabaster)']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Canopic jar with a baboon-headed lid (Hapy) (10.178.1a, b). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/51274

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Description

Late Period, Saite, Dynasty 26, 664–525 B.C. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster). Jar: H. 28.5 × D. 25.7 × Diam. 14.4 cm (11 1/4 in. × 10 1/8 in. × 5 11/16 in.); Lid: H. 14.5 × W. 16.9 × D. 18.2 × Diam. 12.8 cm (5 11/16 × 6 5/8 × 7 3/16 × 5 1/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1910.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A stone canopic jar with a rounded lid topped by a baboon-headed figure, likely representing Hapy (one of the Four Sons of Horus).

The object is a single canopic container carved in light-colored stone with a cylindrical body that narrows slightly toward the bottom. The lid is shaped as a baboon head: a rounded skull form with a face area and snout/forehead contours, consistent with the baboon-headed depiction associated with Hapy. The jar body bears a vertical column (or narrow register) of incised hieroglyphs or similar ornamentation on the front. No clear cartouche or royal name is legible in the image. The surfaces show natural stone texture and weathering consistent with carved travertine/alabaster; the lid and body are of the same material and workmanship. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

funerary Late Period, Saite (per catalogue ground truth; image is consistent with a canopic jar of this type) good

Deities Hapy (baboon-headed Four Sons of Horus; identification based on catalogue title and lid form)

Materials travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

Signs Incised hieroglyphic column (individual signs not reliably readable at this resolution) ×10

Visible text "Unclear: an incised vertical hieroglyphic inscription is present, but individual signs are not legible enough to transcribe from the provided image."

Connections

Deities Nephthys Hapi

Materials Travertine

Cross-references (4)

Wikidata-Q Q116256076 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 10.178.1a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 550883 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)

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