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Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter
- Medium
- Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), blue glass, obsidian, unidentified stone
- Classification
- Canopic Jar Lid to the jar 07.226.1 of Kiya, secondary queen of Akhenaten
- Dimensions
- lid: H. 18.2 × Diam. 16.6 cm, 3.9 kg (7 3/16 × 6 9/16 in., 8.6 lb.); jar and lid: H. 53.2 cm (20 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1907 (07.226.1) Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915 (30.8.54)
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
