”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).
Enigma
Janice Kamrin
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Contributors
Janice Kamrin
Curator, Department of Egyptian Art
Curator, Department of Egyptian Art
Photography by Eileen Travell
Art Mentioned
ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter
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