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Canopic Jar of Amenhotep

Ancient Egyptian · New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep II (about 1427–1400 BCE)

Provenance

Ownership history

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in Egypt, 1892; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1892.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, Grave Goods from Ancient Cultures, Gallery 141, November 9, 1991 - May 17, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 154A, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, When the Greeks Ruled: Egypt After Alexander the Great, October 31, 2013 - July 27, 2014.
Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.

Literature

Published references

Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 19 (ill.), 20, 64, 156.
Nicholas Reeves, Egyptian Art at Eton College: Selections from the Myers Museum, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Windsor: Eton College, 1999), p. 24 [as Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago 92.36-39].
Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 21, fig. 5.
Nicholas Reeves, “Amenhotep, Overseer of the Builders of Amun: An Eighteenth-Dynasty Burial Reassembled,” in the Metropolitan Museum Journal 48, 1 (2013), p. 14, fig. 12.
Giovanni Verri and Hariclia Brecoulaki, "From the Face and Expression of the Eyes: Multidisciplinary Studies of Pigments in Ancient Greek and Roman Painted Surfaces," TECHNAI: An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology, Fabrizio Serra editore (Pisa/Roma, Anno 14, 2023), p. 58, fig. 1.
Emily Teeter with contributions by Giovanni Verri, <a href="https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/103"><em>“Cats. 101–4 Canopic Jars of Amenhotep,”</em></a> in Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago by Emily Teeter and Ashley F. Arico, ed. Ashley F. Arico (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025).
James Rondeau (ed.), Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2026), cat. no. 3, p. 26 (ill.).

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