Description

In the process of mummification certain organs, the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines were removed, embalmed separately, and stored in jars known as canopic jars. Although this jar and another from the collection (1914.631) were presumably from the same individual and therefore the same set, they differ in their materials, workmanship, size, and style of inscriptions. This jar, the larger of the two, is much finer. The lid is in the form of a bearded male head of excellent quality. The body, of a different limestone, has three columns of incised inscription that are not very carefully cut and have no trace of color. They read: "Words spoken by Selkis: 'May your arms embrace that which is in you. May you protect Qebehsenuef, who is in you, and the honored one before Qebehsenuef, the Osiris, the chief royal herald, Geregmennefer.'"