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

Canopic Jar

DepartmentAncient Mediterranean Art
CultureEgyptian
Dateca. 1069-664 B.C.
MediumTravertine (Egyptian alabaster)
Dimensionsh. with lid: 13 15/16 in. (35.4 cm)
diam.: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
h. without lid: 10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number86.138.59
GeographyDescriptionCanopic jar with three columns of text for Pef-abekh-neith. Lid in the form of a human head. Part of a set of four canopic jars with 86.138.57-58, 60.Label TextThese jars (86.138.57-60) held the internal organs of a man named Pef-abekh-neith. During the mummification process, embalmers removed the organs from the body and stored them in canopic jars for placement in the tomb. The jars’ lids represent the Four Sons of Horus, gods who protected the organs. Falcon-headed Qebehsenuf watched over the intestines, jackal-headed Duamutef protected the stomach, human-headed Imsety guarded the liver, and baboon-headed Hapi had charge of the lungs. (Jessica Powers, 2018) Provenancesold by Mahmoud Mohasseb Bey (active 1920-1935), Luxor, to Miriam Lutcher Stark (1859-1936), Orange, TX, 1927; by inheritance to her son, H. J. Lutcher Stark (1887-1965), Orange, TX, 1936; by his bequest to the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, TX, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986Exhibition History"The Egyptian Mummy: Unwrapping the Mystery," Houston Museum of Natural Science, 23 March 1989-17 September 1989

"Mummies, Myths and Magic," Witte Museum, San Antonio, Sept. 22, 1989-Apr. 8, 1990.
Published References
C. C. Van Siclen, III, An Illustrated Checklist for Mummies, Myths and Magic (San Antonio: Van Siclen Books, 1990), p. 42, no. 2.
InscriptionsThree columns of text written right to left: Column 1: Dd-mdw.in wsir pf-Abx- Words spoken by the Osiris, Pef-abekh- Column 2: nt ms nbw-sA it.f Neith, born of Nebu-sa, his father Column 3: ink sA imTs I am the protection, Imsety [trans. S. Schellinger, 2018]
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Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Canopic Jar
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 1069-664 B.C.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Canopic Jar
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 1069-664 B.C.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Canopic Jar
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 1069-664 B.C.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Canopic Jar with Jackal-headed Lid
Culture: Egyptian
664-332 B.C.
Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Canopic Jar with Falcon Head
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 664-332 B.C.
Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Canopic Jar with Baboon Head
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 664-332 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, museum purchase, Stark-Wilson Collection Photography by Peggy Tenis…
Eye inlays from a coffin
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 1069-664 B.C.
Purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Coffin Fragment with a Mummy on a Funerary Bed
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 664-30 B.C.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Kohl Jar
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 1985-1650 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Chris Karcher and Karen Keach
Jar
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 2686-2181 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Cylinder Jar
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 2686-2181 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Cylinder Jar
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 2686-2181 B.C.

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