Canopic Jar of Pen-ta-wer with Worshipper in Front of Kebkhsenuf (Son of Horus)

ca. 1250 BCE (New Kingdom)

15.2 cm 23.8 cm

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To protect the body from decomposition, the intestines and other organs were removed from the body during mummification and stored in canopic jars. An entire set has four jars, each one protected by one of the Sons of Horus. The scenes on this jar and another from the set (Wal...

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24078
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.435

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