Base of Dummy Canopic Jar Depicting Imsety

Place FoundEgypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodThird Intermediate Period

Date1076-723 BCE

MediumLimestone

Credit LineCharlotte Lichirie Collection of Egyptian Art

Dimensions14 15/16 x 4 15/16 in. (37.9 x 12.5 cm)

Object number1999.001.030 A

Label TextThis canopic jar has a separate lid, but the inside of the jar is not hollowed out. At this time, canopic jars had become such a standard part of burial equipment that model jars were still placed in the tomb and this jar is an example of this. The carving of the lid is typical of the period, and traces of the original pigment that decorated it appear to lie under nineteenth century polychrome overpainting.
Exhibition HistoryJuly Egyptian Preview, Michael C. Carlos Museum, July 18 - 20, 1999
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, February 2000 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - Present
Published ReferencesPeter Lacovara, "The New Galleries of Egyptian and Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum," Minerva 12 (2001): 9-16.
Peter Lacovara and Betsy Teasley Trope, The Realm of Osiris (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2001), 44.
Jennifer Ritchey, "Eye on Antiquity," Where Atlanta (November 2001): 21.

ProvenanceEx coll. Niagara Falls Museum, Niagara Falls, Canada. Purchased by MCCM from William Jamieson (1954-2011) [Golden Chariot Productions], Toronto, Canada.

Status

On view

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