Canopic jar with a jackal-headed lid 664–525 Late Period, Saite 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 jar was under the protection of Duamutef and Neith an
Canopic jar with a jackal-headed lid 664–525 Late Period, Saite 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 jar was under the protection of Duamutef and Neith and would probably have contained the Canopic jar with a jackal-headed lid. 664–525 Travertine (Egyptian alabaster). Late Period, Saite. Possibly from Upper Egypt, Thebes; From Egypt. Dynasty 26
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