Canopic jar with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)

Canopic jar with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This canopic is part of a set (13.180.1–.4) found in a Ptolemaic cemetery at Thebes. Use of canopics had gone out of fashion at that period, however, so these are certainly reused. Their style suggests they were originally created in the late Third Intermediate Period.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Canopic jar with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)Canopic jar with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)Canopic jar with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)Canopic jar with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)Canopic jar with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)

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.