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Canopic Jar with Falcon's Head
Canopic Jar with Falcon's Head
664–525 BC
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Travertine
Diameter: 18.6 cm (7 5/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); Overall: 45.3 cm (17 13/16 in.)
The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1921.1018
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The falcon-headed deity Qebehsenuef protected the contents of this canopic jar. It contained the remains of the deceased's intestines, which were kept safe for the afterlife.
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In the process of mummification, the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines were removed, separately embalmed, and stored in specialized jars known as canopic jars (after a sailor in Greek mythology, who died at the town of Canopus in the Nile Delta and was worshipped there in the form of a human-headed jar). Each organ was identified with one of four funerary deities collectively known as the Sons of Horus: the liver with Imsety (man's head), the lungs with Hapy (baboon's head), the stomach with Duamutef (jackal's head), and the intestines with Qebehsenuef (falcon's head). It was their duty to protect the deceased and restore to him his body parts in the hereafter.
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