Viscera figure with baboon head (Hapy)

Unknown

ca. 1000–945 B.C. · Mud, wax · Egyptian Art

A set of four roughly-made figures (25.3.156a–d) were found inside the mummy of Nesitaset. Each figure represents one of the Four Sons of Horus, the deities who both embodied and protected the internal organs. Nesitaset's organs had been removed, divided into seven packages, dessicated, wrapped in linen, and placed back in the body. This figure represents the baboon-headed Hapy, usually seen as the guardian of the lungs.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1000–945 B.C.

Medium

Mud, wax

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1925