82nd & Fifth: Canopic Jar

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Mark Cartwright
by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 07 February 2016

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"It seems to me that aesthetically this goes well beyond meeting the need of surviving into the afterlife."

82nd & Fifth invites 100 curators from across the Museum to talk about 100 works of art that changed the way they see the world.

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