This glass plate #negative shows a wooden #canopic #chest discovered during Garstang’s #excavations at the #ancientEgyptian site of Beni Hasan. It is painted with striped edges and a line of #hieroglyphic #text runs around the centre of the sides.
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A set of four canopic jars was an important element of the burial in most periods of Ancient Egyptian history. Canopic jars were containers in which the separately mummified organs would be placed. The best known versions of these jars have lids in the shape of the heads of protective deities called the four Sons of Horus. The human-headed Imsety was the guardian of the liver; the baboon-headed Hapy looked after the lungs; the jackal-headed Duamutef was responsible for the stomach; and the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef cared for the intestines. Image by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A set of four canopic jars was an important element of the burial in most periods of Ancient Egyptian history. Image by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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