Image: Canopic Smendes Met

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Description: Canopic jar of pharaoh Smendes, founder of the 21st Dynasty. This particular jar was intended to contain the king's liver, since it is inscribed for Qebehsenuef, the falcon-headed deity deputed to the protection of this organ. Calcite alabaster, early 21st Dynasty, Third Intermediate Period. Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 47.60.
Title: Canopic Smendes Met
Credit: Canopic Jar Inscribed for King Nesibanebdjedet (Smendes)
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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License: CC0
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