Canopic jar

Description

Canopic jar in dark red pottery, inscribed for the priest Amunmose, oviform in shape with a flat base and wide orifice: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Sedment, Tomb 283, mid 18th Dynasty, c.1550-1295

Museum reference

A.1921.1464

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Canopic jar

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Mid 18th Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Collection place(s)

Sedment, Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Amun-mose the prophet
Neith

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• The Tomb

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Fitzenreiter, Martin (2005) 'Uberlegungen zum Kontext der "Familienstelen" und ahnlicher Objekte' In Fitzenreiter, M (ed.) Genealogie - Realitat und Fiktion von Identitat (Internet- Beitrage zur Agyptologie und Sudanarchaeologie; London: Golden House Publications) pp 76-77

Bryan, B.B (2006), 'Administration in the Reign of Thutmose III', in Eric H. Cline and David O'Connor (eds.) Thutmose III. A New Biography. The University of Michigan Press, p 112.

Holzl, R (2002), Agyptische Opfertafeln und Kultbecken. Eine Form- und Funktionsanalye fur das Alte, Mittlere und Neue Reich. Hildesheimer Agyptologische Beitrage, Hildesheim. p 127.

On display

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