The bronze jar with a lid in the form of a humanoid head wearing the pharaonic nemes headdress and false beard, identifying the figure as the god Imsety. One of the four sons of Horus, all of whom are represented in the typical quartet of canopic jars as protectors of the dead and their removed organs, the humanoid god Imsety is charged with safekeeping the liver. The body encircled by a frieze band depicting various fragments of the Dendera temple zodiac reliefs, including the wedded twin gods Shu and Tefnut holding hands, followed by a procession of various other deities, descending to lower geometric bands, raised atop a fluted socle in a depressed bowl, the everted rim with a band of winged scarabs and sun discs issuing serpents, the whole in brass.

Height: 19cm   Width: 16.5cm 

Provenance: 

From the private collection of Nicola Marletta, Rome (2007).

The bronze jar with a lid in the form of a humanoid head wearing the pharaonic nemes headdress and false beard, identifying the figure as the god Imsety. One of the four sons of Horus, all of whom are represented in the typical quartet of canopic jars as protectors of the dead and their removed organs, the humanoid god Imsety is charged with safekeeping the liver. The body encircled by a frieze band depicting various fragments of the Dendera temple zodiac reliefs, including the wedded twin gods Shu and Tefnut holding hands, followed by a procession of various other deities, descending to lower geometric bands, raised atop a fluted socle in a depressed bowl, the everted rim with a band of winged scarabs and sun discs issuing serpents, the whole in brass.

Height: 19cm   Width: 16.5cm 

Provenance: 

From the private collection of Nicola Marletta, Rome (2007).