Canopic Jar Representing the Deity Duamutef

Canopic Jar Representing the Deity Duamutef

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Canopic jars were made to hold the internal organs that were removed during mummification. This canopic jar, with its jackal-headed lid, probably held the stomach and was under the protection of the god Duamutef, one of the Four Sons of Horus. The other three jars of the set are 12.183.1a–c.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Canopic Jar Representing the Deity DuamutefCanopic Jar Representing the Deity DuamutefCanopic Jar Representing the Deity DuamutefCanopic Jar Representing the Deity DuamutefCanopic Jar Representing the Deity Duamutef

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.