Treasury of Tutankhamun. Canopic jar shrine
In Tutankhamun's tomb, the vessels intended to contain the sovereign's internal organs were kept in a monumental gilded wooden sacellum, protected by a canopy; on the pillars that fasten the canopy to the slide that serves as a base is engraved the entire royal title of Tutankhamun. The roof of the canopy is decorated with a conspicuous frieze repeating the motif of the uraeus with the sun disc. On the sides are gilded wooden statues of the four tutelary goddesses, with their arms outstretched in the act of holding the viscera of the deceased: Isis, Nephthys, Selkit and Neith.
