Image code: 26634

Inepuhotep's set of canopic jars

The four lids depict the four sons of Horus, under whose protection the organs of the dead were placed; the yellow one represents Amseti, the guardian genius of the liver (the other three would later be represented as jackal, falcon and baboon). The faces are encircled by black hair that descends to the shoulders and have eyes painted black and white; destined to hold the entrails of Inepuhotep.

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