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Canopic Jar with Baboon's Head   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Canopic Jar with Baboon's Head
Description
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.
Date -664
Medium Travertine
Dimensions Diameter: 18.2 cm (7 3/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); Overall: 40.8 cm (16 1/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
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Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
Accession number
1921.102
Place of creation Egypt, Late Period, Dynasty 26
Credit line The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.1020

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