Canopic jar with a baboon-headed lid (Hapy)

Late Period, Saite

664–525 B.C.

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 127

Canopic jars were made to contain the embalmed viscera removed from the body in the process of mummification. The organs were placed under the protection of the Four Sons of Horus, whose heads form the lids of the jars: Hapy (baboon-headed), Imseti (human-headed), Duamutef (jackal-headed), and Qebehsenuef (falcon-headed). In turn these gods were under the protection of the goddesses Nephthys, Isis, Neit, and Selqet, respectively, as the inscriptions on the jars state.

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Title: Canopic jar with a baboon-headed lid (Hapy)
Period: Late Period, Saite
Dynasty: Dynasty 26
Date: 664–525 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
Dimensions: Jar: H. 28.5 × D. 25.7 × Diam. 14.4 cm (11 1/4 in. × 10 1/8 in. × 5 11/16 in.); Lid: H. 14.5 × W. 16.9 × D. 18.2 × Diam. 12.8 cm (5 11/16 × 6 5/8 × 7 3/16 × 5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1910
Object Number: 10.178.1a, b
Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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