Head of Imsety (Lid of a Canopic Jar) (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

1550–1070 BC
Egyptian
limestone
Egypt
Overall: 4 × 4 1/2 in. (10.2 × 11.4 cm)
47.10.90
Dynasties 18-20
New Kingdom Period
T. Catesby Jones Collection
"Life and Afterlife: Cycles of Nature and Belief in Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts," Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, June 12 - August 19, 1999; Wm King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA, August 27 - October 10, 1999; Peidmont Arts Assoc., Martinsville, VA, October 15 - November 28, 1999; Emerson Gallery, McClean, VA, December 3, 1999 - January 15, 2000; and Longwood Center for the Vis. Arts, Farmville, VA, January 22 - March 5, 2000

"Art and the Archaeologist," Artmobile, January 1978 - December 1979
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