A Complete Set of Canopic Jars

ca. 900-800 BCE (Third Intermediate Period)

11.7 cm 32 cm 13 cm

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This set of canopic jars was made to contain the internal organs removed from the body during the mummification process. The four sons of the god Horus were believed to protect these organs. The jackal-headed Duamutef protected the stomach; the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef, the i...

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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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