id: 94076 accession number: 1914.630 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.630 updated: 2023-03-28 16:15:16.320000 Canopic Jar with Lid, 1540–1296 BC. Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18. Limestone; diameter: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.); diameter of mouth: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.); overall: 48.4 cm (19 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.630 title: Canopic Jar with Lid title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1540–1296 BC creation date earliest: -1540 creation date latest: -1296 current location: 234 Textile Gallery creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 technique: limestone department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Egypt - New Kingdom type: Funerary Equipment find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.); Overall: 48.4 cm (19 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Untitled Exhibition opening date: 1973-08-13T04:00:00 Untitled Exhibition. Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-November 9, 1973). title: Egyptomania: Fashion's Conflicted Obsession opening date: 2023-04-01T04:00:00 Egyptomania: Fashion's Conflicted Obsession. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1, 2023-January 28, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 6 - September 20, 1916). * Publicity Campaign. State Theater, Cleveland, OH (September 28-October 16, 1922). --- PROVENANCE Joseph Hassan Ahmed, Luxor, sold to Lucy Olcott Perkins, through Henry W. Kent date: footnotes: citations: Lucy Olcott Perkins (1877-1922), New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1914- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Canopic jars are named after the Greek sailor Canopus, who was said to be buried at Canopus (Abuqir) in the western delta and worshipped there in the form of a human-headed jar that was actually a form of Osiris and had nothing to do with internal organs. But the term has stuck. digital description: wall description: 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 (1914.631) were presumably from the same individual and therefore the same set, they differ in their materials, workmanship, size, and style of inscriptions. This jar, the larger of the two, is much finer. The lid is in the form of a bearded male head of excellent quality. The body, of a different limestone, has three columns of incised inscription that are not very carefully cut and have no trace of color. They read: "Words spoken by Selkis: 'May your arms embrace that which is in you. May you protect Qebehsenuef, who is in you, and the honored one before Qebehsenuef, the Osiris, the chief royal herald, Geregmennefer.'" --- RELATED WORKS id: 94079 Canopic Jar with Lid, 1540–1296 BC. Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18. Limestone; diameter: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.); diameter of mouth: 10.2 cm (4 in.); overall: 39.7 cm (15 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.631 relationship: --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition June 6-September 20, 1916. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. page number: no. 5, p. 204, pl. 340 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAInExhib_80860 Williams, Caroline Ransom. "The Egyptian Collection in the Museum of Art at Cleveland, OH," Journal of East Asian Archaeology 5 (1918). page number: p. 278 url: Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 page number: Reproduced: p. 341; Mentioned: p. 340-341 url: Gleisser, Benjamin, "Mystery of the Nile," Northern Ohio Live (September 1999). page number: p. 26 url: Herzberg, Anna, Prosopographia Memphitica, A Prosopographical Database (January 2021). page number: ID 1494 url: https://anneherz.github.io/ProM/detail/singleview_objects.html?ids=1494&type=(tomb%27s)%20equipment --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.630/1914.630_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.630/1914.630_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.630/1914.630_full.tif