Canopic jar lid
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Canopic jar lid
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Published 2019-03-12T15:40:40+00:00
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The canopic jars were four in number, each for the safekeeping of particular human organs: the stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver, all of which, it was believed, would be needed in the afterlife. There was no jar for the heart: the Egyptians believed it to be the seat of the soul, and so it was left inside the body.
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| Date published | 12/03/2019 |
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| Title | Canopic jar lid |
| Date | 1400-1352 BC |
| Accession | SM1902.50.3 |
| Period | Dynasty 18 |
| Medium | Limestone |
| Credit | Gift of Theodore M. Davis |
| Record | https://semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/ |
| Place | Harvard Semitic Museum |
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