Canopic jar with a jackal-headed lid

Canopic jar with a jackal-headed lid

Canopic jar with a jackal-headed lid. Dimensions: Jar with Lid: H. 49 cm (19 5/16 in.); Diam. 22.8 cm (9 in.); Jar: H. 28.3 cm (11 1/8 in.); D. 23.6 cm (9 5/16 in.); Diam. at base 14 cm (5 1/2 in.); Diam. at mouth 14 cm (5 1/2 in.); Circ. 70 cm (27 9/16 in.); Lid: H. 22.3 cm (8 3/4 in.); W. 17.4 cm (6 7/8 in.); D. 19.7 cm (3/4 in.); Diam. of foot 12.4 cm (4 7/8 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 26. Date: 664-525 B.C.. Canopic jars were made to contain the embalmed viscera removed from the body in the process of mummification. The organs were placed under the protection of the Four Sons of Horus, whose heads form the lids of the jars: Hapy (baboon-headed), Imsety (human-headed), Duamutef (jackal-headed), and Kebehsenuef (falcon-headed). In turn these gods were under the protection of the goddesses Nephthys, Isis, Neith, and Selket, respectively, as the inscriptions on the jars state. This jar was under the protection of Duamutef and Neith and would probably have contained the stomach.

Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

Late Period, Saite

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

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2934 x 4400 px | 36.9 MB

24.8 x 37.3 cm | 9.8 x 14.7 in (300 dpi)