331 BC: Jars

Limestone Canoic Jars (Ptolemaic Period, 332 - 31 BC)

Limestone Canopic Jars (Ptolemaic Period, 332 – 31 BC). After mummification, the viscera of the individual were stored in jars for the afterlife:

Duamatef—the jackal: the stomach.
Hapy—the baboon: the lungs.
Imsety—the human: the liver.
Qebehsenuf—the falcon: the intestines.

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