Canopic box; wood with paint and gesso
Naga ed-Deir; Ptolemaic
Collected by George Reisner.
6–17149ab
Ancient Egyptian customs, such as preserving the bodily organs in canopic containers, continued on in modified form until Greek and Roman times. The box’s front simulates a building or sanctuary entrance, covered with the name and epithets of Anubis, the “divine embalmer” (on the left, “Words spoken by Anubis, lord of the sacred land,” and on the right, “Words spoken by Anubis, who is before the divine booth”). Among the designs on the sides are three mummiform divinities.
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