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Collection Item: Canopic Vessel Cover
Basic info
- Collection
- Decorative Arts
- Object name
- Canopic vessel cover
- Object category
- Egyptian
- Description
- A carved limestone cover for a canopic jar. The cover is carved in the shape of a baboon's head, with a painted red snout.
- Production date start
- -664
- Production date end
- -525
- Period
- Saitic Period
- Twenty-sixth Dynasty
Identification
- Object number
- YORAG : 1430
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 1.1186
- 1.112
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- SHIC
- ID
- 15004274
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Limestone (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 12.5 cm
- Whole diameter 13.0 cm
- Whole width 14.0 cm
Production
- Location
- Egypt
