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Enigma

Janice Kamrin
2 min. watch

”It seems to me that aesthetically this goes well beyond meeting the need of surviving into the afterlife.”

Curator Janice Kamrin on an Egyptian canopic jar (ca. 1347–1330 BCE).

Contributors

Janice Kamrin
Curator, Department of Egyptian Art

Photography by Eileen Travell

Art Mentioned

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54), Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), blue glass, obsidian, unidentified stone
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

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