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Amest canopic jar for Tjes-Bastet-peret
General Information

The lid of this canopic jar is human in shape. Although the burial was that of a woman, the lid shows a man with a wide beard. The inscription is in four columns, crowned at the top by the hieroglyph for heaven.

Number 3561
Storing Place Kunsthistorisches Museum - Vienna - Austria
Material Limestone
Type Canopic Jars
Type of Script Hieroglyphic
Discovery Place West bank - Luxor - Egypt
Height 35.6 cm
Historical Period The Twenty- Second Dynasty – The Third Intermediate Period
General Comments

This Canopic jar is one of a group of four Canopic jars dedicated to Tjes-Bastet-peret.

Inscriptions on the Monument
Transliteration
( If the Hieroglyphic,Demotic or Hieratic text is not appearing clear, install this file )

Htp di nsw n Wsir Imsti n Wsir sAt nsw n nb tAwy nb xaw Wsrkn sA bAstt mr imn *s-bAstt-prt mAa(t)-xrw mwt.s s-m-xb mAa(t)-xrw


Translation

(1) An offering, which the king gives to (2) Osiris and Amset, for the Osiris, daughter of the King, of the Lord of the Two Lands, Lord of crowns (3) Osorkon son of Bastet, beloved of Amun, Tjes-Bast-peret, true of voice, (4) whose mother was Es-em-kheb, true of voice.

Scientific Publishing

H., Satzinger, Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. (1987) 103.
K. C., Seele, in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies (JNES) 6 (1947) 51, Anm. 77.
W., Wreszinski, Aegyptische Inschriften aus dem k.k. Hofmuseummin Wien VII (1906), 3.

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