Canopic jar (Hapi)
Type:
Funerary monument and ornaments
Year:
Saïtic period, Dynasty XXVI (664-525 B.C.)
Material and technique:
Calcite
Inventory:
Inv. MB 35
Canopic jars were the containers used to preserve the entrails removed from corpses during the mummification process. The entrails were protected by the four sons of Horus: Hapi, the monkey, was the protector of the lungs.
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FUNERARY RELIEFS
Nearly all the reliefs in the Barracco Museum’s collection belong to the funerary sphere.
They come from a type of tomb, the mastaba (from the Arabic word for bench), which was especially characteristic of Old Kingdom necropolises.
