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Canopic Jar

Object Number:E14722A
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Egypt
Period: Twenty-Sixth Dynasty or Later
Section:Egyptian
Materials:Alabaster
Iconography:Qebehsenuef
Inscription Language:Hieroglyphic
Credit Line:Gift of Clara Jessup (Mrs. Bloomfield) Moore, 1890
Other Number:ES 465 - Original Number

Description

Jar is of Merptah, with inscription of Imseti. Head is of Qebehsenuef. Jar and lid therefore did not originally belong together.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Loan Exhibition - Objects Used in Religious Ceremonies, and Charms and Implements For Divination (16 Apr 1892) View Objects in Exhibition
World\'s Columbian Exposition Exhibits: Objects from the Flinders Petrie and Egyptian Exploration Fund ( Jan 1893 - Dec 1893) View Objects in Exhibition

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