id:			102375
accession number:	1921.1020.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.1020.b
updated:		2025-08-07 18:58:11.589000

Canopic Jar with Baboon's Head (lid), 664–525 BCE. Egypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26. Travertine; diameter: 18.2 cm (7 3/16 in.); diameter of mouth: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); overall: 40.8 cm (16 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1921.1020.b

title:				Canopic Jar with Baboon's Head (lid)
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creation date:			664–525 BCE
creation date earliest:		-664
creation date latest:		-525
current location:		107 Egyptian
creditline:			The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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culture:	Egypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26
technique:	travertine
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - Late Period
type:		Funerary Equipment
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measurements: Diameter: 18.2 cm (7 3/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); Overall: 40.8 cm (16 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Untitled Exhibition
	opening date:   1973-08-13T04:00:00
	<i>Untitled Exhibition</i>. Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-November 9, 1973).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Formerly in the collection of William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, Didlington Hall, Norfolk; Amherst Sale, lot 297. Purchased through Howard Carter
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"The Bequests of Mary Warden Harkness: A Tribute and an Accounting." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 15, no. 2, part. 2. (February, 1928): 43-50
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 49
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137106

	Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 447; Mentioned: p. 447-448, cat. no. 347
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