Viscera figure with jackal head (Duamutef)

Third Intermediate Period

ca. 1000–945 B.C.

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 126

Four "viscera" figures, meant to protect the internal organs, were found inside the mummy of Djedmutesankh. Representing the Four Sons of Horus, these were associated with four of the seven packages of viscera that had been removed, dessicated, wrapped in linen, and put back inside the body. Jackal-headed, this example represents Duamutef, usually seen as the embodiment and protector of the stomach.

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Title: Viscera figure with jackal head (Duamutef)
Period: Third Intermediate Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 21, second half
Date: ca. 1000–945 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb MMA 60, Chamber, Burial of Djedmutesankh (Ch5), MMA excavations, 1923–24
Medium: Resin
Dimensions: H. 9.7 × W. 2.7 × D. 1.8 cm (3 13/16 × 1 1/16 × 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1925
Object Number: 25.3.154c
Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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