canopic jar

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Object Type
Museum number: EA9547
Description: Limestone canopic jar with flat base and flaring sides, drawn in at shoulder, with panel containing four vertical registers of black-painted hieroglyphs on front; the cover is human-headed, representing Imsety, with details of eyes and eye-brows painted black.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Egypt
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 34.30 centimetres (max)
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Inscription subject
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1992 Jul-Oct, Norfolk, Swaffham Museum, Ancient Egypt 1993-2003, Newcastle, The Hancock Museum, Land of the Pharaohs 2006/8 Sept-Sept, Wallsend, Segedunum Roman Fort & Baths Museum, Egypt Revealed
Condition: fair
Subjects
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1839
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA9547
Registration number: 1839,0921.457
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: BS.9547 (Birch Slip Number)
Conservation

Free entry