Canopic jar with human head (Imsety), ca. 800–650 BC
Canopic jar with human head (Imsety), Third Intermediate Period, ca. 800–650 BC, From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, cemetery 300, Ptolemaic vaulted tomb, Pit 1, 1912–13, Limestone, Jar: H. cm (10 in.); d. cm (6 in.); diam. of base cm (4 1/8 in.); diam. of mouth 8 cm (3 1/8 in.); circ. cm (17 3/16 in.); Lid: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.); w. cm (4 15/16 in.); d. cm (4 13/16 in.); diam. of foot cm (2 9/16 in.); Jar with Lid: H. cm (14 5/16 in.); diam. cm (5 3/4 in.), This canopic is part of a set () 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
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