Two Banded Alabaster canopic Jars, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.

each inscribed in two columns for Ptah-iridis, daughter of Ankh-khonsu, daughter of Tasherit-en-sekhmet, one lid in the form of human-headed Imsety, guardian of the liver, wearing a wide wig passing behind the large ears, his face with broad nose and black-painted eye-rims, irises, and cosmetic lines in relief, the other lid in the form of falcon-headed Qebusenuf, guardian of the intestines, his eyes painted in black.

Omar Pacha Sultan, Cairo
Robert Taylor, New York
Peter Sharrer, New York, 1984

Collection de feu Omar Pacha Sultan, Le Caire. Catalogue descriptif, vol. I: Art égyptien, Paris, 1929, no. 406, illus.

In the photograph in the 1929 Paris catalogue (see p. ... in the present catalogue) these two jars were part of a complete set of four; the jar now supporting the human-headed lid was then mistakenly surmounted by the baboon-headed lid which was later sold, together with the jar then crowned by the human-headed lid, at Parke-Bernet Galleries, May 24th, 1969, no. 33, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, February 17th, 1978, no. 198,  Sotheby's, New York, June 8th, 1994, no. 53, and Sotheby's, New York, December 7th, 2005, no. 8.