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    "localId": "39958",
    "label": "Canopic Jar with Jackal Head",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.91"
}

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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Canopic Jar with Jackal Head",
    "description": "During mummification, the internal organs of the deceased were removed from the body and placed in a set of four special containers, the so-called canopic jars. The lids of the jars depicted the heads of a hawk, a human, a jackal, and a baboon, each associated with one of the four \"Sons of Horus,\" the deities responsible for protecting the organs. Jackal-headed Duamutef was responsible for the stomach.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Luxor]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "7th century BCE (Late Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.91",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "covers"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25,
            "height": 14
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 9 13/16 x 5 1/2 in. (25 x 14 cm)"
}

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