Artifact information
Materials
Alabaster
Dimensions
H: 45 cm,
Description
Human-headed canopic jar made of alabaster, which probably held the liver and was under the protection of Imseti
Inscription
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Comments
Canopic jars were made to contain the organs that were removed from the body in the process of mummification: the lungs, liver, intestines, and stomach. Each organ was protected by one of the Four Sons of Horus: Hapy (lungs), Imseti (liver), Duamutef (stomach), and Qebehsenuef (intestines). Beginning in the New Kingdom, canopic jar lids were usually carved with heads that identify these four protectors: the baboon head is Hapy, the human head is Imseti, the jackal head is Duamutef, and the falcon head is Qebehsenuef.
Figures/Motifs
Anubis
Parallels
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