Canopic jar with human head (Imsety)

Third Intermediate Period

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.

Canopic jar with human head (Imsety), Limestone

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Canopic jar with human head (Imsety), Limestone
Canopic jar with human head (Imsety), Limestone
Canopic jar with human head (Imsety), Limestone
Canopic jar with human head (Imsety), Limestone
Canopic jar with human head (Imsety), Limestone

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