canopic jar / Limestone / Pigment

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1971.02.0196a
Other Number: 1971.02.0196b
Type of Number: part of set
Object Name: canopic jar
Lot: BayView Association
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Stone Vessels; Sarcophagi and funerary urns
Materials: Limestone; Pigment
Weight: 4.40 kg
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Verbatim Date: 525-343 BC
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Case 18 - Dynastic Funerary BR Drawer
Exhibition Curator: Richards, Janet
Publication Title: Faces of Immortality: Egyptian Mummy Masks, Painted Portraits and Canopic Jars in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Publication Author: Root, Margaret Cool
Publication Year: 1979
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1971.02.0196a
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1971.02.0196a/dscn7689.jpg

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