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Canopic Jar with Head of Duamutef

New Kingdom, Ramesside
ca. 1295–1185 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 122
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 Kebehsenuef (falcon-headed). Duamutef is further featured in the scene painted on the jar and his name is mentioned in the inscription to its right. Like other jars under the protection of Duamutef, this jar would probably have contained the stomach.

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Object Information
  • Title: Canopic Jar with Head of Duamutef
  • Period: New Kingdom, Ramesside
  • Dynasty: Dynasty 19
  • Date: ca. 1295–1185 B.C.
  • Geography: From Egypt
  • Medium: Faience
  • Dimensions: H. 24.2 × Diam.13 cm (9 1/2 × 5 1/8 in.)
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1969
  • Object Number: 69.75a, b
  • Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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