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Unknown and Egyptian

Covered Burial Urn for the High Priest Psamtik

Unknown, 664

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Covered Burial Urn for the High Priest Psamtik

Unknown and Egyptian

Covered Burial Urn for the High Priest Psamtik

  • Artist/Maker: Unknown
  • Culture: Egyptian

Covered Burial Urn for the High Priest Psamtik

Unknown, 664

Physical Qualities Alabaster, 12 1/4 × 6 in. (31.1 × 15.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Garrett
Object Number 1956.132.2
One from a set of viscera jars for Psamtik. Ape head on lid; ape head above 3-column inscription on jar (see file)
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.180-181, ill.

Artist/Maker

Unknown

Culture

Egyptian

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