Canopic Jar In A Woman's Head

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The name of the piece that I find interesting in the Ancient Egyptian is Canopic Jar with a Lid in the Shape of a Royal Woman's Head. The date of the is particular piece is was made around short thereafter ca. 1345-1336 B.C. The medium it was made of is Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), blue glass, obsidian, unidentified stone. The piece is a creamy coffee color jar with a top that has a head of a woman's head. The woman's heads was once painted but over time you can see it start to fade away. They're is still some paint but not as it would have look like thousands years of ago. You can still see the outline of the way woman's head and how detail it was sculpted. The reason why the woman's face is sculpted very young because they believe that

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