![]() ![]() Here, Menelaus’s pilot, Koptos, was worshipped as a form of the god, Osiris, as a human-headed jar filled with Nile water. 1908.664.5.2 is a falcon-headed lid.Īccording to Ikram (1998: 276, 2003: 125), canopic jars get their name from Canopus, near modern day Abu Qir on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. ![]() 2) was not in the first batch like the lids, but is listed in Delivery Catalogue I, so was probably also on display at some time between 1874 to 1884. What is known is that all of these lids were in the first batch of objects that Pitt-Rivers sent for display in the Bethnal Green Museum probably in 1874, and they are listed in the Delivery Catalogues of objects packed for Oxford as having been transferred from South Kensington Museum in 1884. Lastly, 1884.67.28, also human-headed, sits slightly crookedly on a shelf in Human Form in Art case C.147.A, possibly after having been sawn off its jar.Īll of these objects are ancient Egyptian in origin, but their original collectors and the regions within Egypt that they came from are unknown. 1884.57.15 has a human head and sits on top of canopic jar 1884.57.17.1 in Treatment of the Dead case C.7.A (Fig. ![]() 1884.57.14 is made of painted pottery, but all of the others are of pale limestone with only 1884.57.13 decorated with black painted outlines to highlight its features. 14 are both human-headed and sit together on a low shelf in case C.122.C (Human Form in Art) below 1884.57.16, which has a baboon’s head, and sits in the upper case, C.122.A. The founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum contains no less than five canopic jar lids and one canopic jar. ![]()
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