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Unknown and Egyptian

Covered Burial Urn for the High Priest Psamtik

Unknown, 627

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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, 627

Physical Qualities Alabaster, 13 1/2 × 6 in. (34.3 × 15.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Garrett
Object Number 1956.132.1
One from a set of viscera jars for Psamtik. Human head on lid (head of the deceased); human head and 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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On View: Wurtzburger, Hallway

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