Medium: Egyptian alabaster (calcite)
Geograhical Locations:
Dates:ca. 1279–1213 B.C.E.
Dimensions: 18 1/2 × 6 11/16 in. (47 × 17 cm) mount (supported by plaicre): 18 1/8 × 8 1/16 × 8 1/16 in. (46 × 20.5 × 20.5 cm)
Collections:
Museum Location: Funerary Gallery 3, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
Exhibitions:
Accession Number: 48.30.3a-b
Image: 48.30.3a-b_PS9.jpg,
Catalogue Description: One of four alabaster canopic jars of the Royal Scribe and Chief lector priest, Thenry. Jars of tall, slender form swelling out at the shoulders and then in to neck. Front of each jar decorated with incised panel running almost entire height of body. On upper part of each panel Thenry stands to right worshipping a standing representation of the same god as represented on cover. Inscriptions: one row above reliefs, one column between reliefs, and four columns below figures. Covers in form of heads of Sons of Horus. Each fitted with collar with interior of cover partially hollowed out. Remains of color. Condition: Excellent. Scattered natural defects in stone probably originally filled with plaster. Front base of cover of Duamutef chipped. Most of color lost