Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of the Ancient World: July 2008–June 2009
Canopic jar lid
1820–1740 B.C.
Height x diameter: 16.5 x 17.8 cm (6 1/2 x 7 in.)
Indurated limestone
Classification: Tomb equipment
Culture: Egyptian
Object Place: Egypt
Period: Middle Kingdom, late Dynasty 12–early Dynasty 13
Accession number: 2008.640
Location: Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery (Egypt: Middle Kingdom)
Description: Canopic jar lid with a face bearing features of a late 12th or early 13th Dynasty ruler.
Provenance/Ownership History: Late 1940s: believed to have been purchased at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, by a private collector, Palm Beach, Florida; December 6, 2006, sold by Sotheby's, New York, sale N08253, lot 66, to Rupert Wace, London, England; 2008: purchased by the MFA from Rupert Wace. (Accession date: September 17, 2008)
Museum purchase with funds from the Egyptian Curator's Fund, anonymous gifts, and donated by Janet Maffei, Jonathan and Judy Keyes, Paul Chapman, Philippa D. Shaplin, Zareen Taj Mirza, David and Linda DiCecco, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Butts, Jr.