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Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.

Canopic Jar with Jackal-headed Lid

Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Contact us at copyright@samuseum.org for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Ansen Seale.

Canopic Jar with Jackal-headed Lid

Culture: Egyptian
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Late Period
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions:
h. of jar: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
rim diam.: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm)
h. of lid: 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm)
diam. of lid: 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number: 86.138.428.a-b
Inscribed: Six columns of text, written right to left: Column 1: Ddt.n nt sbAx rmn That which Neith has said: I enfold <him> with my arms Column 2: nb Hr iri mkt n dwA-mwt.f n every day, making the protection of Duamutef Column 3 (first word nty is written between columns 2 and 3): ty im.i sA wsir it-nTr imy-xt HA who is in me, the protection of the Osiris, the god’s father, the imy-khet-priest of Ha Column 4: TA-Hr-imw sA Dd-pTH Tja-hor-imu, son of Djed-Ptah- Column 5, the name Djed-Ptah-iuf-ankh continues from the previous column: iw.f-anx iri.n Hnwt mAa-xrw sA <n> dwA-mwt.f iuf-[ankh], engendered of Henut, justified, the protection of Duamutef, Column 6: wsir TA-Hr-imw [pw] dwA-mwt.f pw The Osiris, Tja-hor-imu [is] Duamutef Additional information in curatorial file [S. Schellinger 2018]
Provenance: By purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986
Label Text
Canopic jars held the internal organs that were removed during mummification, and the resin-coated remains of an organ are still preserved in this jar. The hieroglyphic text gives the name of the deceased man, Tja-hor-imu, and records that he was a priest of Ha, a god of the Western Desert. The jar’s lid represents the jackal-headed god Duamutef, one of the Four Sons of Horus, whose protection for Tja-hor-imu is invoked in the inscription.

(Jessica Powers, 2018)
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