Title

Padiuf?s False Canopic Jars, 22nd Dynasty, c1550BC-1069 BC. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

Padiuf?s False Canopic Jars, 22nd Dynasty, c1550BC-1069 BC. Containers used to store internal organs removed from the deceased's body during mummification. Their stoppers were made in the likeness of Horus?s four sons, funerary gods whose role was to guard the internal organs. Qebehsenuef, with the head of a falcon, looked after the intestines, Hapy, with the head of a baboon, safeguarded the lungs, Duamutef, with the head of a jackal, protected the stomach, and Imsety, with a human head, looked after the liver. Louvre.

Date

1550 BC

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/CM Dixon

Reference

HRM19B83_153

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,7Mb (1,7Mb) / 18,0in x 11,6in / 5407 x 3472 (300dpi)

Keywords

head religious arts country Egypt religion art museum color colour Egyptian death deity God location century gallery burial Louvre artefact concept artifact goddess art gallery funerary Internal Organ Ancient Egyptian 20th century Ancient Egypt mummification historic CM Dixon 11th century BC 16th century BC 22nd Dynasty Canopic jar Late Period object Unknown Dixon CM CM Dixon Mike Dixon art centre Musee du Louvre Mizraim 3rd intermediate period Padiuf CM Dixon Padiuf object