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Canopic Jar with Head of Duamutef

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Description

Faience

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 glazed ceramic canopic jar with a human-headed lid, showing mummiform figures within a rectangular panel on the body.

The image shows a tall canopic jar with a rounded, tapering body and a separately made lid shaped as a human/royal-style head with projecting ear forms and a striped headdress/cloth. The jar’s surface is covered with a light-toned glaze. On the front of the jar body there is a framed rectangular scene containing three stylized mummiform figures: two standing upright with arms held close to the body and a central figure holding/standing over a tall object (appearing crown-like or staff-like). Flanking or supporting symbols within the panel are painted in dark lines with some red/green accents. No readable modern text is visible.

funerary New Kingdom, Ramesside period (per catalogue ground truth) good
Deities unknown (mummiform/Imy-w/sons-of-Horus identification unclear from image)
Materials glazed faience (consistent with light-colored faience body and painted decoration)
Signs Painted schematic panel depicting mummiform/ritual figures (figural hieroglyphic-like decoration, non-legible)

Connections

Deities Duamutef

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116273807 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 69.75a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 549264 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.