Viscera figure with human head (Imsety)

Viscera figure with human head (Imsety)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A set of four roughly-made figures (25.3.156a–d) were found inside the mummy of Nesitaset. Each figure represents one of the Four Sons of Horus, the deities who both embodied and protected the internal organs. Nesitaset'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.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.