Limestone canopic jar
[One of] four tall limestone canopic dummy (?) jars without lids, [Type V b]; not smoothly dressed, chisel marks all over. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2
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- ID
- GEM_4419
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- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
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- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Canopics and canopic Boxes
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- Findspot
- Pit G 4813 D, chamber
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Height: 41 cm Diameter: 16 - 17 cm
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- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
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- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
- HUMFA_35-11-89
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- Journal d'Entree number
- EMC_JE_67593
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_1/14301
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_7/23374
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- Period
- Old Kingdom
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- Date of Register Entry
- 11/23/1935
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- Notes
- Four canopic jars originally registered as HUMFA_35-11-89; now in collection of Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_4414, GEM_4416, GEM_4419, and GEM_4421; formerly EMC_JE_67595, EMC_JE_67592, EMC_JE_67593, and EMC_JE_67594, respectively). A large portion of Special Register section 7 (volumes 13-16) was originally misnumbered, with the object numbers following in sequence from section 1 volume 4; these numbers have thus been given EMC_SR_1 prefixes, despite being recorded in section 7. Hence this canopic jar is EMC_SR_1/14301 (EMC_SR_7/14301 having been used elsewhere for a scarab). The SR numbering was then ammended to the proper section 7 sequence, and this canopic jar was given number EMC_SR_7/23374 (mislabeled on SR page as 23344).
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Reisner, George A., and William Stevenson Smith. The Tomb of Hetep-Heres the Mother of Cheops: a Study of Egyptian Civilization in the Old Kingdom. A History of the Giza Necropolis 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955, p. 95 (incorrectly listed as 1 jar), fig. 140.