Unpublished Material from the Arab Museum of Modern Art at Qatar—Doha I

Abstract

The aim of this article is to shed light on a decorated canopic box with four inscribed canopic jars. The box with its jars are among a corpus of Ancient Egyptian materials housed in the Arab Museum of Modern Art at Doha, Qatar, now under the authority of Qatar Foundation. A description of the canopic box and the jars will be presented here, followed by general comments on the style, decoration, and text painted on the box and the clay jars. The paper will also attempt to examine the dating of the box, identification of its owner and its provenance.