Canopic Jar with Lid
Unknown Artist
1540–1296 BCE
Medium
limestone
Dimensions
h. 39.7 cm · diam. 18.4 cm
Classification
Funerary Equipment
Department
Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
Accession Number
1914.631
About this artwork
In the process of mummification certain organs, the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines, were removed, embalmed separately , and stored in jars known as canopic jars. Although this jar and another from the collection (1914.630) were presumably from the same individual and therefore the same set, they differ in their materials, workmanship, size, and style of inscriptions. Made of a different limestone this jar, the smaller of the two, has a lid in the form of a rather ludicrous male head. It i...