Viscera figure with human head (Imsety)

Third Intermediate Period

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 126

A set of four roughly-made figures (25.3.155a–d) were found inside the mummy of Henettawy,daughter of Isetemkheb. Each of the figures represents one of the Four Sons of Horus, the deities who both embodied and protected the internal organs. Henettawy's organs had been removed, divided into seven packages, dessicated, wrapped in linen, and placed back in the body. This figure represents the human-headed Imsety, usually seen as the guardian of the liver.

Viscera figure with human head (Imsety), Gum (Acacia tortilis)

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Viscera figure with human head (Imsety), Gum (Acacia tortilis)
Viscera figure with human head (Imsety), Gum (Acacia tortilis)

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