Canopic jar with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)

Third Intermediate Period

ca. 800–650 BC

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 130

This canopic is part of a set (13.180.1–.4) found in a Ptolemaic cemetery at Thebes. Use of canopics had gone out of fashion at that period, however, so these are certainly reused. Their style suggests they were originally created in the late Third Intermediate Period.

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Title: Canopic jar with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)
Period: Third Intermediate Period
Date: ca. 800–650 BC
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, cemetery 300, Ptolemaic vaulted tomb, Pit 1, MMA excavations, 1912–13
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: Jar: H. 25.5 × D. 17.3 × Diam. 10.5 cm (10 1/16 in. × 6 13/16 in. × 4 1/8 in.); Lid: H. 13 × W. 12.4 × D. 12.4 × Diam. 6.5 cm (5 1/8 × 4 7/8 × 4 7/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1913
Object Number: 13.181.1a, b
Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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