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Several complete sets of artifacts in the form of the Four sons
of Horus survive. The small figures shown here were wrapped with
the removed internal organs to protect them in the afterlife.
The set shown from the NMS is similar to the famous set in the
British Museum |
Canopic Jars were widely used for the preservation of
the Internal Organs. The design went through various phases,
starting with four human headed jars. The name Canopic from the
town of Canopus, where human headed jars were worshiped
as the personification of Osiris.
A later development, and perhaps the best known, was the use
of jars with stoppers shaped to represent the Four
sons of Horus. The set shown here are of that type. |
All objects photographed here are from
the collection of the National
Museums of Scotland.
Thanks to the N.M.S. Department of History and Applied Art for
information concerning the objects.
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