id: 94079 accession number: 1914.631 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.631 updated: 2021-03-27 12:12:42.062000 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 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: 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: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.); Diameter of mouth: 10.2 cm (4 in.); Overall: 39.7 cm (15 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 6 - September 20, 1916). --- 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. It 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 (1914.630) 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 is clearly by another hand. A sizable fragment is lost from the body. IN contrast to the poor quality of the head, the handsome inscription on the body is deeply cut and filled in with a blue pigment. It reads, "[Words spoken by Nephathys:] 'May your arms embrace that which is in you. May you protect Hapy, who is in you, and the honored one before Hapy, the Osiris, the royal herald, Gregmennefer, vindicated." --- RELATED WORKS --- 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. 4, p. 204 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: Herzberg, Anna, Prosopographia Memphitica, A Prosopographical Database (January 2021). page number: ID 438 url: https://anneherz.github.io/ProM/detail/singleview_objects.html?ids=438&type=(tomb%27s)%20equipment --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.631/1914.631_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.631/1914.631_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.631/1914.631_full.tif