Canopic Jar, Qebehsenuef

Canopic Jar, Qebehsenuef

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

One of two jars, presumably from a set of four (see also 25.3.115b, c, found smashed in the courtyard of Tomb MMA 832. Painted on the body are images of Osiris and a mummiform figure with a falcon head, labeled as the canopic deity Qebehsenuef (guardian of the intestines).

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.